Soil moisture at watershed scale: Remote sensing techniques

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 516, Issue , 2014, Pages 258-272

  Fang, Bin ^a   Lakshmi, Venkat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaggregation algorithm; Remote sensing; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

SOIL MOISTURE;

DISAGGREGATION; REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES; WATERSHED SCALE;

REMOTE SENSING;

ALGORITHM; AMSR-E; GROWING SEASON; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SMOS; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VEGETATION; WATERSHED;

LITTLE WASHITA BASIN; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84945173788     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.12.008     Document Type: Article

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