Soil moisture retrieval using a two-dimensional L-band synthetic aperture radiometer in a semiarid environment

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 4273-4284

  Ryu, Dongryeol ^a   Jackson, Thomas J ^b   Bindlish, Rajat ^b,c   Le Vine, David M ^d   Haken, Michael ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aperture synthesis; microwave radiometry; remote sensing; soil moisture

Indexed keywords

2D-STAR; APERTURE SYNTHESIS; BARE SOILS; EXPERIMENTAL WATERSHEDS; GROUND BASED; L-BAND RADIOMETER; LAND COVER; ME-XICO; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; POLARIMETRIC SCANNING RADIOMETER; ROCK FRACTIONS; SEMI-ARID ENVIRONMENTS; SEMI-ARID REGION; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SOIL SURFACES; STUDY SITES; SURFACE SOIL; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADIOMETERS; VEGETATION DENSITY; WALNUT GULCH;

ARID REGIONS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVES; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

SOIL SURVEYS;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; LAND COVER; RADIOMETER; RELIEF; REMOTE SENSING; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURFACE;

ARIZONA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; SONORA; UNITED STATES;

JUGLANS;

EID: 78649317760     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2051677     Document Type: Article

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