Soil moisture retrievals from biangular L-band passive microwave observations

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 277-281

  Wigneron, Jean Pierre ^a   Calvet, Jean Christophe ^b   De Rosnay, Patricia ^c   Kerr, Yann ^c   Waldteufel, Philippe ^d   Saleh, Kauzar ^a   Escorihuela, Maria José ^c   Kruszewski, Alain ^a  

^a BORDEAUX SCIENCES AGRO   (France)

^b MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

^c CESBIO   (France)

^d SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Incidence angle; L band; Microwave radiometry; Retrieval; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MOISTURE; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SOILS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

INCIDENCE ANGLE; L-BAND; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL;

MICROWAVES;

EID: 8344232563     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2004.834594     Document Type: Article

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