Retrieval of bare soil and vegetation parameters from wind scatterometer measurements over three different climatic regions

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 16-24

  Grippa, Manuela ^a   Woodhouse, Iain H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; GEOPHYSICS; REMOTE SENSING; SOILS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

WIND SCATTEROMETER;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

BACKSCATTER; BARE SOIL; SCATTEROMETER; VEGETATION; WIND;

EID: 0037211693     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(02)00067-6     Document Type: Article

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