Calculations of the Microwave Brightness Temperature of Rough Soil Surfaces: Bare Field

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn GE-25, Issue 1, 1987, Pages 47-54

  Wang, James R ^c  

^a Computer Sciences Corporation ^*  (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVES - SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; RADIOMETERS - MICROWAVES;

MICROWAVE BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; ROUGH SOIL SURFACES;

SOILS;

EID: 0023157043     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.1987.289780     Document Type: Article

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