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Estimation of soil moisture in the root-zone from remote sensing data

Bergson Guedes Bezerra, Carlos Antonio Costa dos Santos, Bernardo Barbosa da Silva, Aldrin Martin Perez-Marin, Marcus Vinícius Cândido Bezerra, José Renato Cortez Bezerra, [...]

01/Jun/2013

Field-based soil moisture measurements are cumbersome. Thus, remote sensing techniques are needed because allows field and landscape-scale mapping of soil moisture depth-averaged through the root zone of existing vegetation. The objective of the study was to evaluate the accuracy of an empirical relationship to calculate soil moisture from remote sensing data of irrigated soils of the Apodi Plateau, in the Brazilian semiarid region. The empirical relationship had previously been tested for irrigated soils in Mexico, Egypt, and Pakistan, with promising […]