Remote Sensing Vegetation Hydrological States Using Passive Microwave Measurements

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 124-131

  Min, Qilong ^a   Lin, Bing ^b   Li, Rui ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Emissivity difference vegetation index (EDVI); passive microwave; remote sensing; vegetation

Indexed keywords

AMAZON BASIN; AMAZON REGION; CLOUDY CONDITIONS; DENSE VEGETATION; DRY SEASONS; INFRARED OBSERVATIONS; LAND SURFACE; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL INDICES; OPTICAL TECHNIQUE; PASSIVE MICROWAVE; PASSIVE MICROWAVE MEASUREMENTS; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; VEGETATION CONDITION; VEGETATION INDEX; VEGETATION PROPERTIES; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; METEOROLOGY; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVES; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING;

VEGETATION;

CLOUD COVER; DATA ASSIMILATION; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; NDVI; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SAVANNA; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION INDEX;

AMAZONIA;

EID: 77649172674     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2009.2032557     Document Type: Article

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