A method for retrieving high-resolution surface soil moisture from hydros L-band radiometer and radar observations

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1534-1544

  Zhan, Xiwu ^a,b   Houser, Paul R ^a,b   Walker, Jeffrey P ^a,c,d   Crow, Wade T ^a,e  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c Center for Research on Environment and Water   (United States)

^d GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Microwave remote sensing; Observing system simulation experiment; Radar measurements; Soil moisture; Spaceborne radiometry

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENT; RADAR MEASUREMENTS; SOIL MOISTURE; SPACEBORNE RADIOMETRY;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; ERROR ANALYSIS; MICROWAVES; RADAR; RADIOMETERS; SOILS;

MOISTURE;

EID: 33744735039     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.863319     Document Type: Article

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