Derivation of surface soil moisture from ENVISAT ASAR wide swath and image mode data in agricultural areas

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 889-898

  Loew, Alexander ^a,b,d,e,f,g   Ludwig, Ralf ^c,h,i,j   Mauser, Wolfram ^a,b,k  

^a IEEE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d ENVISAT   (Germany)

^e ENVISAT ^*  (Germany)

^f ALOS Studies   (Germany)

^g European Geoscience Union   (Germany)

^h European Geophysical Union   (Germany)

ⁱ Shuttle Radar Topography Mission   (Germany)

^j ENVISAT A   (Germany)

^k German National Committee of Global Change Research   (Germany)

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Author keywords

ENVISAT Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR); Hydrology; Inverse problems; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; REMOTE SENSING;

ENERGY FLUXES; ENVISAT ADVANCED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (ASAR); IMAGE ACQUISITIONS; SOIL MOISTURE;

SOIL MECHANICS;

EID: 33645680215     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.863858     Document Type: Article

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