L-Band Microwave Satellite Data and Model Simulations Over the Dry Chaco to Estimate Soil Moisture, Soil Temperature, Vegetation, and Soil Salinity
The Dry Chaco in South America is a semi-arid ecoregion prone to dryland salinization.In this region, we investigated coarse-scale surface soil moisture (SM), soil temperature, soil salinity, and vegetation, using L-band microwave brightness temperature (TB) observations and retrievals from the soil moisture ocean salinity (SMOS) and soil moisture