Quadruple collocation analysis for soil moisture product assessment

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1595-1599

  Pierdicca, Nazzareno ^a   Fascetti, Fabio ^a   Pulvirenti, Luca ^a,b   Crapolicchio, Raffaele ^c,d   Muñoz Sabater, Joaquín ^e  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b CIMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Italy)

^c SERCO ASSURANCE   (United Kingdom)

^d ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

^e EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Advanced SCATterometer (ASCAT); quadruple collocation (QC); soil moisture; Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS); triple collocation (TC)

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MOISTURE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS;

GROUND MEASUREMENTS; MOISTURE VARIATION; QUADRUPLE COLLOCATION (QC); SATELLITE FIELD OF VIEWS; SCATTEROMETERS; SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY (SMOS); SOIL MOISTURE NETWORKS; TRIPLE COLLOCATION (TC);

SOIL SURVEYS;

EID: 85027940834     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2015.2414654     Document Type: Article

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