A methodology for surface soil moisture and vegetation optical depth retrieval using the microwave polarization difference index

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1643-1654

  Owe, M ^a   De Jeu, R ^a   Walker, J ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometry; Remote sensing; Soil moisture; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL TESTING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VEGETATION;

SCANNING MULTICHANNEL MICROWAVE RADIOMETER (SMMR); SOIL MOISTURE (SM);

RADIOMETRY;

EID: 0035445587     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.942542     Document Type: Article

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