Monitoring surface soil moisture and freeze-thaw state with the high-resolution radar of the Soil Moisture Active/Passive (SMAP) mission

IEEE National Radar Conference - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 735-739

  Kim, Seungbum ^a   Van Zyl, Jakob ^a   McDonald, Kyle ^a   Njoku, Eni ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; ERRORS; GEOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TIME SERIES; WATER CONTENT;

ACTIVE/PASSIVE; BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; FREEZE/THAW STATE; HIGH-RESOLUTION RADAR; L BAND RADARS; PASSIVE RADARS; RADAR BACKSCATTER; RADAR DATA; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE;

SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 77954901059     PISSN: 10975659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RADAR.2010.5494523     Document Type: Conference Paper

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