Varying applicability of four different satellite-derived soil moisture products to global gridded crop model evaluation

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 48, Issue , 2016, Pages 51-60

  Sakai, Toru ^a   Iizumi, Toshichika ^a   Okada, Masashi ^a   Nishimori, Motoki ^a   Grünwald, Thomas ^b   Prueger, John ^c   Cescatti, Alessandro ^d   Korres, Wolfgang ^e   Schmidt, Marius ^f   Carrara, Arnaud ^g   Loubet, Benjamin ^h   Ceschia, Eric ⁱ  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^d JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^f Institute of Bio and Geosciences   (Germany)

^g FUNDACIÓN CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AMBIENTALES DEL MEDITERRÁNEO CEAM   (Spain)

^h CEMAGREF   (France)

ⁱ CNES   (France)

Author keywords

Cropland; Flux tower observation; Intercomparison; Satellite remote sensing; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

AMSR-E; CROP PLANT; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE;

GLYCINE MAX; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 85015947834     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2015.09.011     Document Type: Article

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