Merging active and passive microwave observations in soil moisture data assimilation

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 191, Issue , 2017, Pages 117-130

  Kolassa, J ^a,b   Reichle, R H ^b   Draper, C S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Active passive observation synergy; Microwave remote sensing; Soil moisture data assimilation

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; MICROWAVES; MOISTURE; NASA; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS;

ACTIVE/PASSIVE; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; MICROWAVE INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; MOISTURE DATA; ROOT ZONE SOIL MOISTURES; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE;

SOIL MOISTURE;

AMSR-E; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ASCAT; AUTOCORRELATION; BACKSCATTER; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CORRELATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; KALMAN FILTER; LAND SURFACE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; RHIZOSPHERE; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 85010193061     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.01.015     Document Type: Article

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