Vegetation and surface roughness effects on AMSR-E land observations

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 190-199

  Njoku, Eni G ^a   Chan, Steven K ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

AMSR E; Soil roughness; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; HYDROLOGY; MOISTURE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SOILS;

AMSR-E; AQUA ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER; GLOBAL HYDROLOGY; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; SOIL ROUGHNESS;

VEGETATION;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; EMISSIVITY; LAND SURFACE; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VEGETATION COVER; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 30544448126     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2005.10.017     Document Type: Article

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