A regional scale performance evaluation of SMOS and ESA-CCI soil moisture products over India with simulated soil moisture from MERRA-Land

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 186, Issue , 2016, Pages 514-527

  Chakravorty, Aniket ^a   Chahar, Bhagu Ram ^a   Sharma, Om Prakash ^a   Dhanya, C T ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Correlation analysis; Error quantification; ESA CCI; SMOS; Soil moisture; Triple collocation

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ERRORS; LINEAR REGRESSION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; PIXELS; RADIO INTERFERENCE; RAIN; SATELLITES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ERROR QUANTIFICATION; ESA-CCI; SMOS; TRIPLE COLLOCATION;

SOIL MOISTURE;

ALGORITHM; ARID REGION; CORRELATION; DESERT; ERROR CORRECTION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; NDVI; PIXEL; RAINFALL; SMOS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEXTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION COVER;

INDIA;

EID: 84988591398     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.09.011     Document Type: Article

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