Monitoring soil moisture over the canadian prairies with the ERS scatterometer

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 1 PART 1, 1999, Pages 206-216

  Wagner, Wolfgang ^a,b   Noll, Josef ^a,b,d   Borgeaud, Maurice ^c,d   Rott, Helmut ^a,b,c,d  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ers scatterometer; Radar signal analysis; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DATA REDUCTION; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

RADAR SIGNAL ANALYSIS; SCATTEROMETERS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032712789     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.739155     Document Type: Article

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