Observations of soil moisture using a passive and active low-frequency microwave airborne sensor during SGP99

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2659-2673

  Njoku, Eni G ^a   Wilson, William J ^a   Yueh, Simon H ^a   Dinardo, Steve J ^a   Li, Fuk K ^a   Jackson, Thomas J ^b   Lakshmi, Venkataraman ^c   Bolten, J ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave; Radar; Radiometer; Remote sensing; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; MICROWAVES; RADAR IMAGING; RADIO INTERFERENCE; RADIOMETERS; SENSORS; SOILS; VEGETATION;

SOIL MOISTURE;

REMOTE SENSING;

INTERFERENCE; MICROWAVES; PLANTS; RADAR; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SENSORS; SOIL;

EID: 0036993948     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.807008     Document Type: Article

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