research has been carried out to develop a 
methodology of estimating soil hydraulic 
properties from multi-temporal soil moisture 
data obtained from remote sensing. 
6. ACKNOWLEDGMENT 
This work was performed while Nandish 
Mattikalli held a National Research Council- 
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Regular 
Research Associateship. 
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