Determining land-surface parameters from the ERS wind scatterometer

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 1 I, 2000, Pages 126-140

  Woodhouse, Iain ^a   Hoekman, Dirk H ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOIL MOISTURE; WIND SCATTEROMETERS;

GEOPHYSICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; RADAR MEASUREMENT; VEGETATION; WIND;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033903026     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.823907     Document Type: Article

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