Quality Assessment of the CCI ECV Soil Moisture Product Using ENVISAT ASAR Wide Swath Data over Spain, Ireland and Finland

• Published in: Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 7; no. 11; pp. 15388 - 15423
• Main Authors: Pratola, Chiara, Barrett, Brian, Gruber, Alexander, Dwyer, Edward
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.11.2015
• Subjects: Climate change; ENVISAT ASAR WS; ESA Climate Change Initiative; essential climate variable; European Space Agency; Hydrology; Mathematical models; Microwaves; Quality assessment; Remote sensing; Soil (material); Soil moisture; Soil surfaces; Soil texture; Soil types; Spatial resolution; spatial variability; Temporal logic; temporal variability; Texture

During the last decade, great progress has been made by the scientific community in generating satellite-derived global surface soil moisture products, as a valuable source of information to be used in a variety of applications, such as hydrology, meteorology and climatic modeling. Through the Europ...