Soil moisture (water-content) assessment by an airborne scatterometer: The Chernobyl disaster area and the Negev desert

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 309-319

  Blumberg, D G ^a   Freilikher, V ^b   Lyalko, I V ^c   Vulfson, L D ^c   Kotlyar, A L ^c   Shevchenko, V N ^c   Ryabokonenko, A D ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c State Institution Scientific Centre for Aerospace Research of the Earth of the Institute of Geological Sciences of the NAS of Ukraine   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; ARID REGIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; SOIL POLLUTION;

SCATTEROMETERS;

REMOTE SENSING;

AIRBORNE SENSING; SCATTEROMETER; SOIL MOISTURE;

ISRAEL; UKRAINE;

EID: 0034161387     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(99)00087-5     Document Type: Article

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