Retrieval of land surface parameters using passive microwave measurements at 6-18 GHz

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 1 PART 1, 1999, Pages 79-93

  Njoku, Eni G ^a   Li, Li ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrology; Inverse problems; Microwave radiometry; Remote sensing; Soil; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; HYDROLOGY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; VEGETATION;

MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; SCANNING MULTICHANNEL MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032730949     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.739125     Document Type: Article

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