Seven Years of Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) Global Monitoring (GM) of Surface Soil Moisture over Africa

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 7683-7707

  Dostálová, Alena ^a   Doubková, Marcela ^a   Sabel, Daniel ^a   Bauer Marschallinger, Bernhard ^a   Wagner, Wolfgang ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Africa; Change detection; Envisat ASAR; SAR; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MOISTURE CONTROL; MONITORING; QUALITY CONTROL; SOIL SURVEYS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER FOR EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; ADVANCED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; AFRICA; CHANGE DETECTION; ENVISAT ASAR; LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; PEARSON CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE DIFFERENCES;

SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 84997335781     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6087683     Document Type: Article

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