Multiyear monitoring of soil moisture over Iran through satellite and reanalysis soil moisture products

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 48, Issue , 2016, Pages 85-95

  Rahmani, Abdolaziz ^a   Golian, Saeed ^a   Brocca, Luca ^b  

^a SHAHROOD UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b Researcher of Research Institute for Geo Hydrological Protection   (Italy)

Author keywords

Correlation; Iran.; Reanalysis; Remote sensing sensors; Soil Moisture

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; DATA SET; MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SMOS; SOIL MOISTURE; TREND ANALYSIS;

IRAN;

EID: 85015896156     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2015.06.009     Document Type: Article

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