The estimation of soil moisture from ERS wind scatterometer data over the Tibetan plateau

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 28, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 53-61

  Wen, Jun ^a,b   Su, Zhongbo ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Backscattering coefficient; ERS wind scatterometer; Fresnel reflectivity; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MICROWAVES; SOILS; VEGETATION; WIND;

WIND SCATTEROMETERS;

MOISTURE;

ALGORITHM; BACKSCATTER; ERS-1; MICROWAVE RADIATION; REFLECTIVITY; SCATTEROMETER; SOIL MOISTURE;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

EID: 0037245372     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-7065(03)00007-X     Document Type: Article

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