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Methods to retrieve surface soil moisture were assessed at the global scale for one entire year by using simulated Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity brightness temperatures (TB) and vegetation coverage information which can be derived from optical sensors. The global TB database consists of half-degree continental pixels and accounts for within-pixel heterogeneity, based on 1-km resolution land cover...
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