Using python® language for the validation of the CCI soil moisture products via SM2RAIN

PeerJ

Volumn 4, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Ciabatta, Luca ^a   Massari, Christian ^a   Brocca, Luca ^a   Reimer, Christoph ^b   Hann, Sebastian ^b   Paulik, Christoph ^b   Dorigo, Wouter ^b   Wagner, Wolfgang ^b  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Big data management; EODC; Open source; Python ; Satellite data

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIG DATA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; SOIL MOISTURE; VALIDATION PROCESS; WATER AVAILABILITY;

EID: 85036580153     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.2131v4     Document Type: Article

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