Microwave soil moisture dynamics and response to climate change in Central Asia and Xinjiang Province, China, over the last 30 years

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Li, Xinwu ^a   Gao, Xizhang ^b   Wang, Jingkai ^a,c   Guo, Huadong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

climate change; correlation analysis; environmental change; essential climate variable soil moisture; tendency analysis

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRICULTURE; DRIERS (MATERIALS); SOIL MOISTURE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

AGRICULTURAL AREAS; ANALYTICAL METHODOLOGY; CLIMATE VARIABLES; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; SOIL MOISTURE DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS METHODS; TENDENCY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84942694193     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.9.096012     Document Type: Article

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