Surface soil moisture retrieval from L-band radiometry: A global regression study

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 9 PART I, 2003, Pages 2037-2051

  Pellarin, Thierry ^a   Calvet, Jean Christophe ^a   Wigneron, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Global scale; L band radiometry; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; MAPPING; MOISTURE; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOILS; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES;

GLOBAL REGRESSION; SIMILAR LINEAR COMBINATIONS; SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY MISSION; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL;

RADIOMETRY;

EID: 0037884413     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.813492     Document Type: Article

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