An assessment of QuikSCAT ku-band scatterometer data for soil moisture sensitivity

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 640-643

  Mladenova, Iliana ^a   Lakshmi, Venkat ^a   Walker, Jeffrey P ^b   Long, David G ^c   De Jeu, Richard ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c Brigham Young University   (United States)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR E); National Airborne Field Experiment 2006 (NAFE'06); QuikSCAT; Soil moisture; Temporal change detection

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER; ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER (AMSR-E); AUSTRALIA; FIELD EXPERIMENT; INTERCOMPARISONS; KU-BAND; MULTI-BEAM; NATIONAL AIRBORNE FIELD EXPERIMENT 2006 (NAFE'06); OBSERVED DATA; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; PRECIPITATION EVENTS; QUIKSCAT; RICE FIELDS; SCATTEROMETER DATA; SENSOR FREQUENCY; SPATIAL DISAGGREGATION; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STANDING WATERS; TEMPORAL CHANGE; TEMPORAL CHANGE DETECTION; TEMPORAL SENSITIVITY;

BACKSCATTERING; CATCHMENTS; EXPERIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVES; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PERMITTIVITY; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SCANNING; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOIL MOISTURE;

SOIL SURVEYS;

EID: 70350294581     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2009.2021492     Document Type: Article

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