Determination of land surface temperature and soil moisture from Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission/Microwave Imager remote sensing data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Wen, Jun ^a   Su, Zhongbo ^a   Ma, Yaoming ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Brightness temperature; Land surface temperature and soil moisture; Tibetan plateau; TRMM TMI

Indexed keywords

REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0346639274     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002jd002176     Document Type: Article

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