Review of crop growth and soil moisture monitoring from a ground-based instrument implementing the Interference Pattern GNSS-R Technique

Radio Science

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Rodriguez Alvarez, N ^a   Bosch Lluis, X ^a   Camps, A ^a   Aguasca, A ^a   Vall Llossera, M ^a   Valencia, E ^a   Ramos Perez, I ^a   Park, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2-D SPACE; CROP GROWTH; DELAY-DOPPLER MAPS; DOPPLER SHIFTS; GEOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; GNSS RECEIVERS; GNSS SIGNALS; GROUND-BASED INSTRUMENTS; INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; INTERFERENCE SIGNAL; MOISTURE PROBE; NEW STUDY; POWER DISTRIBUTIONS; POWER FLUCTUATIONS; REAL TIME; REFLECTOMETRY; SEA STATE; SIGNAL PROCESSOR; SNOW AND ICE; SNOW THICKNESS; SOIL MOISTURE MONITORING; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; VEGETATION HEIGHT; VEGETATION WATER CONTENT;

COMPASSES (MAGNETIC); EXPERIMENTS; GEOPHYSICS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MAGNETIC TAPE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SNOW; SOIL MOISTURE; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION; WATER CONTENT;

MOISTURE CONTROL;

EID: 80054734479     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011RS004680     Document Type: Article

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