Soil surface sealing effect on soil moisture at a semiarid hillslope: Implications for remote sensing estimation

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 7469-7490

  Sela, Shai ^a   Svoray, Tal ^a   Assouline, Shmuel ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Modeling; Remote sensing; Soil moisture; Soil surface sealing

Indexed keywords

MODELS; POROSITY; RAIN; SLOPE STABILITY; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURVEYS;

CALIBRATION AND VALIDATIONS; GROUND OBSERVATIONS; GROUND VALIDATIONS; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; PHYSICALLY BASED MODELING; REMOTE SENSING ESTIMATIONS; SOIL MOISTURE DYNAMICS; SOIL SURFACE SEALING;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84997327936     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6087469     Document Type: Article

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