Soil moisture retrieval from AMSR-E

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 215-229

  Njoku, Eni G ^a   Jackson, Thomas J ^b   Lakshmi, Venkataraman ^c   Chan, Tsz K ^a   Nghiem, Son V ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrology; Microwave; Radiometry; Remote sensing; Satellite; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); HYDROLOGY; IMAGE SENSORS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MOISTURE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SCANNING; SOILS;

EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS (EOS);

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 0038613093     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.808243     Document Type: Review

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