Error decomposition of nine passive and active microwave satellite soil moisture data sets over Australia

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 182, Issue , 2016, Pages 128-140

  Su, Chun Hsu ^a   Zhang, Jing ^a   Gruber, Alexander ^b   Parinussa, Robert ^c   Ryu, Dongryeol ^a   Crow, Wade T ^d   Wagner, Wolfgang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

AMSR E; AMSR2; ASCAT; Error analysis; ERS; Microwave remote sensing; SMMR; SMOS; Soil moisture; SSM I; TMI; WindSat

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ERBIUM; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR STATISTICS; ERRORS; MOISTURE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SOILS;

AMSR2; ASCAT; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; SMMR; SMOS; SSM/I; WINDSAT;

SOIL MOISTURE;

ALGORITHM; AMSR-E; ASCAT; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ERROR ANALYSIS; LAND COVER; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; RADIOMETER; SMOS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SSM-I; VEGETATION INDEX; WINDSAT;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84969850440     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.05.008     Document Type: Article

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