Optical-Microwave Synergy for Estimating Surface Sensible Heat Flux over a Semi-Arid Rangeland

Remote Sensing Reviews

Volumn 15, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 113-132

  Troufleau, D ^a   Vidal, A ^a   Beaudoin, A ^a   Moran, M S ^b   Weltz, M A ^c   Goodrich, D C ^c   Washburn, J ^d   Rahman, A F ^d  

^a AGROPARISTECH   (France)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; HEAT FLUX; MICROWAVES; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SOILS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); WATERSHEDS;

OPTICAL MICROWAVE SYNERGY; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERROR (RMSE); SEMIARID RANGELAND; VEGETATION CHARACTERISTICS;

REMOTE SENSING;

BACKSCATTERING; ERS-1; INFRARED; MICROWAVE SENSING; RADAR; RANGELAND; SEMIARID REGION; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; WALNUT GULCH '92 EXPERIMENT;

EID: 0030713282     PISSN: 02757257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02757259709532334     Document Type: Article

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