The impact of local acquisition time on the accuracy of microwave surface soil moisture retrievals over the contiguous United States

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 13448-13465

  Lei, Fangni ^a,b   Crow, Wade T ^b   Shen, Huanfeng ^a   Parinussa, Robert M ^c   Holmes, Thomas R H ^b,d  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition time; Data merging; Remote sensing; Retrieval algorithm; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE SENSORS; ORBITS; OVERPASSES; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

ACQUISITION TIME; DATA MERGING; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; LAND SURFACE CONDITIONS; PASSIVE MICROWAVE SATELLITE SENSORS; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SUN SYNCHRONOUS ORBITS; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE;

SOIL SURVEYS;

EID: 84945920205     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs71013448     Document Type: Article

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