Evaluation of the European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative Soil Moisture Product over China Using Variance Reduction Factor

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1524-1535

  Shen, Xiaoji ^a   An, Ru ^a   Quaye Ballard, Jonathan Arthur ^b   Zhang, Ling ^a   Wang, Zhe ^a  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

Author keywords

climate change; European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative soil moisture product; remote sensing; soil moisture; soils; variance reduction factor

Indexed keywords

ERROR CORRECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ECOLOGICAL PROTECTION; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; HYDROLOGICAL FORECASTING; ROOT MEAN SQUARE DIFFERENCES; SITU OBSERVATION; VALIDATION RESULTS; VARIANCE REDUCTIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORECASTING METHOD; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

CHINA; EUROPE;

EID: 84996602400     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: 17521688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.12478     Document Type: Article

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