Ground-based passive microwave remote sensing observations of soil moisture at S-band and L-band with insight into measurement accuracy

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1844-1858

  Laymon, Charles A ^a,b   Crosson, William L ^b   Jackson, Thomas J ^a,c   Manu, Andrew ^d   Tsegaye, Teferi D ^d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d ALABAMA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALFALFA; L-BAND EMITTING DEPTH; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE;

ALGORITHMS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FREQUENCIES; IRRIGATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SOILS; VEGETATION; WATER;

MOISTURE;

EID: 0035441441     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.951075     Document Type: Article

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