Retrieving near-surface soil moisture from Radarsat SAR data

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1569-1579

  Biftu, Getu Fana ^a   Gan, Thian Yew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANADA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SOIL MOISTURE; TELECOMMUNICATION;

RADARSAT; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALBERTA; CANADA; PADDLE RIVER BASIN;

EID: 0344483886     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998WR900120     Document Type: Article

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