A large-antenna microwave radiometer-scatterometer concept for ocean salinity and soil moisture sensing

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2645-2655

  Njoku, E G ^a   Wilson, W J ^a   Yueh, S H ^a   Rahmat Samii, Y ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mesh antenna; Radiometer; Salinity; Scatterometer; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADAR IMAGING; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SOILS;

MESH ANTENNA; SCATTEROMETER; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOIL MOISTURE;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0034317747     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.885211     Document Type: Article

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