On the airborne spatial coverage requirement for microwave satellite validation

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 824-828

  Rüdiger, Christoph ^a   Walker, Jeffrey P ^a   Kerr, Yann H ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Airborne validation; passive microwave remote sensing; Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS); spatial requirements

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE DATA; AIRBORNE VALIDATION; COMMUNITY IS; DESIGN SENSITIVITY; FLIGHT LINES; HIGH RESOLUTION; LOW-RESOLUTION SENSORS; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; SAMPLING ERRORS; SATELLITE MISSION; SATELLITE VALIDATION; SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY (SMOS); SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY MISSIONS; SOUTHEAST AUSTRALIA; SPATIAL COVERAGE; SPATIAL REQUIREMENTS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SUBSAMPLING TECHNIQUES;

MOISTURE DETERMINATION; REMOTE SENSING; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SATELLITES; SOIL MOISTURE;

MICROWAVES;

EID: 79959735046     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2011.2116766     Document Type: Article

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