Measured microwave radiative transfer properties of a deciduous forest canopy

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 523-532

  Guglielmetti, M ^a   Schwank, M ^a   Matzler C ^b   Oberdorster C ^c   Vanderborght, J ^c   Fluhler H ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Canopy transmissivity; Deciduous forest; Microwave radiometry; Passive microwave remote sensing; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE;

CROWN STRUCTURE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; FOLIATION STATES; LOW MICROWAVE FREQUENCIES; X-BAND RADIOMETER;

FORESTRY;

DECIDUOUS FOREST; DEFOLIATION; FOREST CANOPY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; TRANSMISSIVITY;

FORESTRY; MICROWAVES; REMOTE SENSING;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; JULICH; NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA;

EID: 34347389708     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.02.003     Document Type: Article

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