Triple Collocation-Based Merging of Satellite Soil Moisture Retrievals

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 6780-6792

  Gruber, Alexander ^a   Dorigo, Wouter Arnoud ^a   Crow, Wade ^b   Wagner, Wolfgang ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; least squares approximation; radar; radiometers; remote sensing; soil moisture; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; INSTRUMENTS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MERGING; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE; RADAR; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY; ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER; EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; SATELLITE SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; UNCERTAINTY;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLASSIFICATION; CORRELATION; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; RADAR; RADIOMETER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCATTEROMETER; SOIL MOISTURE; TIME SERIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 85030651801     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2017.2734070     Document Type: Article

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