Soil moisture mapping using ESTAR under dry conditions from the southern great plains experiment (SGP99)

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 10 PART II, 2003, Pages 2392-2397

  Guha, Aniruddha ^a   Jacobs, Jennifer M ^a   Jackson, Thomas J ^b   Cosh, Michael H ^b   Hsu, En Ching ^a   Judge, Jasmeet ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave; Remote sensing; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; RADIOMETERS; SOILS;

ELECTRONICALLY SCANNED THIN ARRAY RADIOMETER; SOIL MOISTURE MAPPING; SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS EXPERIMENT;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0242355098     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.817187     Document Type: Letter

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