Surface Soil Moisture Estimation: Significance, Controls, and Conventional Measurement Techniques

Remote Sensing of Energy Fluxes and Soil Moisture Content

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 29-48

  Petropoulos, George P ^a,b,c   Griffiths, Hywel M ^a   Dorigo, Wouter ^d   Xaver, Angelika ^d   Gruber, Alexander ^d  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

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DOI: 10.1201/b15610-7     Document Type: Chapter

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