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    • Title Scatterometer-detected PAW
    • Released 06/06/2002 3:01 pm
    • Copyright Vienna University of Technology, Austria / Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
    • Description

      One of the many uses of scatterometers on board satellites is to provide information on the amount of water available in the soil. This image shows the monthly mean PAW (plant available water in percentage volumetric soil moisture) available for the period 1992-2000 for Eurasia.


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    • Keywords Water (fresh) , Spacecraft engineering , Soil moisture , Instruments

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