DisPATCh as a tool to evaluate coarse-scale remotely sensed soil moisture using localized in situ measurements: Application to SMOS and AMSR-E data in Southeastern Australia

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 45, Issue , 2016, Pages 221-234

  Malbéteau, Yoann ^a   Merlin, Olivier ^a,b   Molero, Beatriz ^a   Rüdiger, Christoph ^c   Bacon, Stephan ^a  

^a CESBIO   (France)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

AMSR E; Disaggregation; DisPATCh; SMOS; Soil moisture; Validation

Indexed keywords

AMSR-E; DOWNSCALING; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SEMIARID REGION; SMOS; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

AUSTRALIA; MURRUMBIDGEE RIVER; NEW SOUTH WALES; YANCO;

EID: 84998649155     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2015.10.002     Document Type: Article

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