Potential soil moisture products from the aquarius radiometer and scatterometer using an observing system simulation experiment

Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 113-120

  Luo, Y ^a   Feng, X ^b   Houser, P ^b   Anantharaj, V ^c   Fan, X ^d   De Lannoy, G ^e   Zhan, X ^f   Dabbiru, L ^c  

^a EMC   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^f NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Application and Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; NASA; RADIOMETERS; SEARCH ENGINES; SOIL SURVEYS;

LAND INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAND SURFACE MODELING; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SPATIAL AGGREGATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VEGETATION COVERAGE;

SOIL MOISTURE;

BACKSCATTER; CORRELATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LAND SURFACE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOMETER; RIVER BASIN; SAMPLING; SCATTEROMETER; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARKANSAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85006557145     PISSN: 21930856     EISSN: 21930864     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gi-2-113-2013     Document Type: Article

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