Field-supported verification and improvement of a passive microwave surface emission model for rough, bare, and wet soil surfaces by incorporating shadowing effects

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1207-1216

  Kuria, David N ^a   Koike, Toshio ^a   Lu, Hui ^a   Tsutsui, Hiroyuki ^a   Graf, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Microwave; Periodic roughness; Shadowing; Surface emission modeling

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; REMOTE SENSING;

LAND SURFACE EMISSIONS; PASSIVE MICROWAVE TECHNIQUES; PERIODIC ROUGHNESS; SHADOWING; SURFACE EMISSION MODELING;

SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 34247484553     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.894552     Document Type: Article

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