Comparison of two bare-soil reflectivity models and validation with L-band radiometer measurements

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 325-337

  Schwank, Mike ^a,b   Völksch, Ingo ^a   Wigneron, Jean Pierre ^c   Kerr, Yann H ^d   Mialon, Arnaud ^d   De Rosnay, Patricia ^d,e   Mätzler, Christian ^f  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b GAMMA REMOTE SENSING   (Switzerland)

^c Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Physique de l'Environnement   (France)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

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

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic scattering by rough surfaces; Microwave radiometry; Permittivity; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

BARE SOIL SURFACE; BARE SOILS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CORRELATION FUNCTION; CORRELATION LENGTHS; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING BY ROUGH SURFACES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GAUSSIANS; INHOMOGENEITIES; INTEGRAL EQUATION MODELS; L-BAND RADIOMETER; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; OBSERVATION ANGLE; RESOLUTION LIMITS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; ROUGH SURFACES; ROUGHNESS EFFECTS; ROUGHNESS LENGTH; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL PERMITTIVITY; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL SURFACES; SURFACE MONITORING OF THE SOIL RESERVOIR EXPERIMENTS; SURFACE PROFILES; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE; TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES; TRANSITION MODEL; VERTICAL POLARIZATION;

CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GROUNDWATER; MICROWAVES; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PERMITTIVITY; POLARIZATION; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REFLECTION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE;

SOIL SURVEYS;

BARE SOIL; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMITTIVITY; SCATTERING; SOIL EMISSION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURFACE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 73249125600     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2026894     Document Type: Article

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