The Influence of Polarization on Canopy Transmission Properties at 6.6 GHz and Implications for Large Scale Soil Moisture Monitoring in Semiarid Environments

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 409-415

  van de Griend, Adriaan A ^a   Owe, Manfred ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOISTURE DETERMINATION; MONITORING; SCATTERING; SOILS;

POLARIZATION APPROACH; POLARIZATION OPTICAL DEPTHS; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION EFFECTS;

SATELLITES;

EID: 0028403704     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.295055     Document Type: Article

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