MAPSM: A spatio-temporal algorithm for merging soil moisture from active and passive microwave remote sensing

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2016, Pages

  Tomer, Sat Kumar ^a,b,c   Bitar, Ahmad Al ^a   Sekhar, Muddu ^b   Zribi, Mehrez ^a   Bandyopadhyay, Soumya ^d   Kerr, Yann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^c Aapah Innovations Private Limited   (India)

^d INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Active; Downscaling; India; Microwave; Passive; RadarSat 2; SMOS; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RESOLUTION; MERGING; MICROWAVES; MOISTURE; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ACTIVE; DOWN-SCALING; INDIA; PASSIVE; RADARSAT-2; SMOS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

EID: 85002528457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8120990     Document Type: Article

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