Advantages of using microwave satellite soil moisture over gridded precipitation products and land surface model output in assessing regional vegetationwater availability and growth dynamics for a lateral inflow receiving landscape

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Chen, Tiexi ^a,b   McVicar, Tim R ^c,d   Wang, Guojie ^a   Chen, Xing ^b   De Jeu, Richard A M ^e   Liu, Yi Y ^d,f   Shen, Hong ^g   Zhang, Fangmin ^a   Dolman, Albertus J ^h  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science   (Australia)

^e VanderSat BV   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^h VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

NDVI; Precipitation; Remote sensing; Soil moisture; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

CLAY MINERALS; CLAY PRODUCTS; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SOILS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; VEGETATION; WATER SUPPLY;

LAND SURFACE MODELING; NDVI; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; PRECIPITATION PRODUCTS; REMOTELY SENSED SOIL MOISTURE; SATELLITE SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS;

SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 84971416714     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8050428     Document Type: Article

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