Large-scale soil moisture mapping in western Africa using the ERS scatterometer

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 4 II, 2000, Pages 1777-1782

  Wagner, Wolfgang ^a,b,c   Scipal, Klaus ^b  

^a IEEE   (Germany)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING SATELLITES SCATTEROMETER; LARGE SCALE SOIL MOISTURE MAPPING; SOIL MOISTURE;

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; MOISTURE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SOILS; WATER;

MICROWAVE DEVICES;

EID: 0034229066     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.851761     Document Type: Article

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