An improved soil moisture retrieval algorithm for ERS and METOP scatterometer observations

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1999-2013

  Naeimi, Vahid ^a   Scipal, Klaus ^b   Bartalis, Zoltan ^a   Hasenauer, Stefan ^a   Wagner, Wolfgang ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

European Remote Sensing satellite (ERS); METeorological OPerational satellite (METOP); Scatterometer; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

AZIMUTHAL ANISOTROPY; CHANGE DETECTION; DATA SETS; EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING SATELLITE (ERS); EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING SATELLITES; FORCAST; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; MEDIUM RANGE; METEOROLOGICAL OPERATIONAL SATELLITE (METOP); MODEL PARAMETERS; NOISE MODELS; OKLAHOMA; PROCESSING ELEMENTS; REANALYSIS; RETRIEVAL ERRORS; SCATTEROMETER; SCATTEROMETERS; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL;

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; GROUNDWATER; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MILITARY SATELLITES; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PERMITTIVITY; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; WIND;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

ALGORITHM; AZIMUTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DETECTION METHOD; ERS-1; ERS-2; MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTEROMETER; SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 67651177443     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2011617     Document Type: Article

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