The Sodankylä in situ soil moisture observation network: An example application of ESA CCI soil moisture product evaluation

Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 95-108

  Ikonen, Jaakko ^a   Vehviläinen, Juho ^a   Rautiainen, Kimmo ^a   Smolander, Tuomo ^a   Lemmetyinen, Juha ^a   Bircher, Simone ^b   Pulliainen, Jouni ^a  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b CESBIO   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA ENCAPSULATION; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE;

CALIBRATION AND VALIDATIONS; DISTRIBUTED NETWORKS; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES; REMOTELY SENSED DATA; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE;

SOIL SURVEYS;

CALIBRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MODEL VALIDATION; NETWORK ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE;

FINLAND; LAPPI [FINLAND]; SODANKYLA;

EID: 84966359609     PISSN: 21930856     EISSN: 21930864     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gi-5-95-2016     Document Type: Article

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