Microwave Radiometer Measurements of Soil Moisture Content

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1980, Pages 680-686

  Rouse, John W ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS, MICROWAVE; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

SOILS;

EID: 0019056678     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.1980.1142386     Document Type: Article

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