Radio brightness validation on different spatial scales during the SMOS validation campaign 2010 in the Rur catchment, Germany

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3760-3763

  Montzka, C ^a   Bogena, H ^a   Weihermueller, L ^a   Jonard, F ^a   Dimitrov, M ^a   Bouzinac, C ^b   Kainulainen, J ^c   Balling, J E ^d   Vanderborght, J ^a   Vereecken, H ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

brightness temperature; radiometer; SMOS Validation; soil moisture

Indexed keywords

BELGIUM; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; GERMANY; GROUND BASED; MICROWAVE EMISSIONS; NETHERLANDS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELING; SMOS VALIDATION; SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY MISSIONS; SPATIAL SCALE;

CATCHMENTS; GEOLOGY; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE;

LUMINANCE;

EID: 80955170664     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6050043     Document Type: Conference Paper

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