Improving spatial representation of soil moisture by integration of microwave observations and the temperature-vegetation-drought index derived from MODIS products

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 113, Issue , 2016, Pages 144-154

  Wang, Jun ^a   Ling, Ziwei ^a   Wang, Yang ^b   Zeng, Hui ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b China Meteorological Administration   (China)

Author keywords

Land surface soil moisture; Microwave observations; MODIS; Spatial downscaling; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MICROWAVE SENSORS; MICROWAVES; MOISTURE; MOISTURE CONTROL; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; VEGETATION;

DOWN-SCALING; LAND SURFACE; MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS; MODIS; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

SOIL MOISTURE;

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GRASSLAND; LAND SURFACE; MODIS; MONITORING SYSTEM; NUMERICAL METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SATELLITE SENSOR; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84956650279     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2016.01.009     Document Type: Article

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