Assimilation of global radar backscatter and radiometer brightness temperature observations to improve soil moisture and land evaporation estimates

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 189, Issue , 2017, Pages 194-210

  Lievens, H ^a,b   Martens, B ^a   Verhoest, N E C ^a   Hahn, S ^c   Reichle, R H ^b   Miralles, D G ^a,d  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ASCAT backscatter; Data assimilation; GLEAM; Land evaporation; SMOS brightness temperature; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BACKSCATTERING; EVAPORATION; LUMINANCE; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADAR; RADIOMETERS; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; GLEAM; HYDROLOGICAL VARIABLES; LAND EVAPORATION; SOIL MOISTURE NETWORKS; SOIL MOISTURE OCEAN SALINITIES;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ASCAT; BACKSCATTER; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DATA ASSIMILATION; EVAPORATION; KALMAN FILTER; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADAR; SMOS; SOIL MOISTURE;

AMSTERDAM [NORTH HOLLAND]; NETHERLANDS; NORTH HOLLAND;

EID: 85003955317     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.11.022     Document Type: Article

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