Impact of hillslope-scale organization of topography, soil moisture, soil temperature, and vegetation on modeling surface microwave radiation emission

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2557-2571

  Flores, Alejandro N ^a   Ivanov, Valeriy Y ^b   Entekhabi, Dara ^c   Bras, Rafael L ^d  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecohydrology; Microwave radiometer; Observation bias; Radiative transfer; Remote sensing; Soil moisture; Soil temperature; Topography; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CANOPY TEMPERATURE; COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; DISAGGREGATION; ECOHYDROLOGY; HILLSLOPE; HORIZONTAL POLARIZATION; INCIDENCE ANGLES; LAND SURFACE; MICROWAVE BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; MICROWAVE RADIATION EMISSIONS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; MODELING STUDIES; MOISTURE DATA; NEAR-SURFACE; OBSERVATION BIAS; POLARIZATION ROTATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL ORGANIZATION; TERRAIN SLOPE; TOPOGRAPHIC SLOPE; VERTICAL POLARIZATION;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; LUMINANCE; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVES; MOISTURE CONTROL; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PERMITTIVITY; POLARIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; ROTATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURVEYS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION;

TOPOGRAPHY;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DATA ASSIMILATION; ECOHYDROLOGY; HILLSLOPE; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; POLARIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TERRAIN; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 68049102303     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2014743     Document Type: Article

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