Comparison of remote sensing and simulated soil moisture datasets in Mediterranean landscapes

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 180, Issue , 2016, Pages 99-114

  Escorihuela, Maria Jose ^a,b   Quintana Seguí, Pere ^a,b  

^a IsardSAT   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT RAMON LLULL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agriculture; AMSR E; ASCAT; Irrigation; LSM; Regional scale; SMOS; Soil moisture; Water management

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; IRRIGATION; MOISTURE; REMOTE SENSING; SOILS; VEGETATION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ASCAT; LAND SURFACE MODELING; MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS; MEDITERRANEAN LANDSCAPES; MOISTURE CONDITIONS; OPERATIONAL ALGORITHMS; REGIONAL SCALE; SMOS;

SOIL MOISTURE;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; ALGORITHM; AMSR-E; ASCAT; DATA SET; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; LANDSCAPE; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; SMOS; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER; WATER MANAGEMENT;

IBERIAN PENINSULA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84959549992     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.02.046     Document Type: Article

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