Validation and scaling of soil moisture in a semi-arid environment: SMAP validation experiment 2015 (SMAPVEX15)

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 196, Issue , 2017, Pages 101-112

  Colliander, Andreas ^a   Cosh, Michael H ^b   Misra, Sidharth ^a   Jackson, Thomas J ^b   Crow, Wade T ^b   Chan, Steven ^a   Bindlish, Rajat ^c   Chae, Chunsik ^a   Holifield Collins, Chandra ^d   Yueh, Simon H ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

PALS; SMAP; SMAPVEX15; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

GAGES; MOISTURE; MOISTURE CONTROL; MOISTURE METERS; NASA; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADIOMETERS; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; CALIBRATION AND VALIDATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL WATERSHEDS; PALS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE DIFFERENCES; SMAP; SMAPVEX15; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; IN SITU TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; PALSAR; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINGAUGE; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

JUGLANS;

EID: 85010718493     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.04.022     Document Type: Article

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