Surface temperature and soil moisture retrieval in the sahel from airborne multifrequency microwave radiometry

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 588-600

  Calvet, Jean Christophe ^a   Chanzy, André ^b   Wigneron, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; MICROWAVES; MOISTURE; PLANTS (BOTANY); RADIOMETERS; SOILS; SURFACES; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

AIRBORNE MICROWAVE DATA; AIRBORNE MULTIFREQUENCY MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; MICROWAVE BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; SOIL VEGETATION MIXING EQUATION; SPARSE CANOPY EMISSION;

RADIOMETRY;

EID: 0030109805     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.485135     Document Type: Article

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