Soil moisture estimates from AMSR-E brightness temperatures by using a dual-frequency algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3135-3144

  Paloscia, Simonetta ^a   Macelloni, Giovanni ^a   Santi, Emanuele ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for the Earth Observing System (AMSR E); AMSR E brightness temperatures; C and X band emission; Polarization index (PI); Soil moisture content (SMC) retrieval; Tau omega model

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; RADIOMETERS; SOILS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL EFFECTS;

POLARIZATION INDEX (PI); SEA SURFACE; SOIL MOISTURE CONTENT (SMC) RETRIEVAL; TAU-OMEGA MODEL;

SOIL SURVEYS;

EID: 33750833923     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.881714     Document Type: Article

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