A method for estimating soil moisture from ERS Scatterometer and soil data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 191-207

  Wagner, Wolfgang ^a,b   Lemoine, Guido ^a   Rott, Helmut ^c  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCATTEROMETERS;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; POROSITY; RADAR IMAGING; SOILS;

REMOTE SENSING;

ESTIMATION METHOD; SCATTEROMETER; SOIL MOISTURE;

UKRAINE;

EID: 0033230840     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(99)00036-X     Document Type: Article

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