Soil Moisture and Rainfall Estimation Over a Semiarid Environment with the ESTAR Microwave Radiometer

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 836-841

  Jackson, Thomas J ^a   Le Vine, David M ^b   Griffis, Andrew J ^c   Goodrich, David C ^d   Schmugge, Thomas J ^e   Swift, Calvin T ^e   O'Neill, Peggy E ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c Kaman Aerospace Corporation   (United States)

^d US Dept of Agricultural Southwest Watershed Research Center ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAPPING; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RAIN; SOILS;

ARIZONA; RAINFALL ESTIMATION; SEMIARID ENVIRONMENT; SOIL MOISTURE;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 0027635315     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.239906     Document Type: Article

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