Retrieval of land surface parameters in the sahel from ERS wind scatterometer data: A "Brute force" method

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 2056-2062

  Jarlan, L ^a   Mazzega, P ^a   Mougin, E ^a  

^a CNES   (France)

Author keywords

"brute force" method; Backscattering; Nonlinear optimization; Sahel; Wind scatterometer

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BACKSCATTERING; BIOMASS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; SOILS; WIND;

BRUTE FORCE METHOD; LAND SURFACE PARAMETERS; NONLINEAR OPTIMIZATION; SAHEL; WIND SCATTEROMETER;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0036762845     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.802500     Document Type: Article

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