Active-Passive Soil Moisture Retrievals during the SMAP Validation Experiment 2012

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 475-479

  Leroux, Delphine J ^a,b   Das, Narendra N ^a   Entekhabi, Dara ^c   Colliander, Andreas ^a   Njoku, Eni ^a   Jackson, Thomas J ^d   Yueh, Simon ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CESBIO   (France)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Active passive; brightness temperature disaggregation; SMAP; soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BENCHMARKING; LUMINANCE; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NASA; RADAR; TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION;

ACTIVE-PASSIVE; ALGORITHM PERFORMANCE; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; DISAGGREGATION; HIGH RESOLUTION RADAR; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SMAP; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS;

SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 84977834609     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2015.2491643     Document Type: Article

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