Characterizing the Dependence of Vegetation Model Parameters on Crop Structure, Incidence Angle, and Polarization at L-Band

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 416-425

  Wigneron, Jean Pierre ^a   Pardé, Mickael ^a   Waldteufel, Philippe ^b   Chanzy, André ^a   Kerr, Yann ^c   Schmidl, Sten ^d   Skou, Niels ^d  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c CNES   (France)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Crops; Incidence angle; Microwave radiometry; Modeling; Polarization; Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission (SMOS); Vegetation

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MOISTURE; RADIOMETRY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SOILS; VEGETATION;

INCIDENCE ANGLE; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY (SMOS) MISSION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 1442360944     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.817976     Document Type: Article

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