Comparison of statistical and multifractal properties of soil moisture and brightness temperature from ESTAR and PSR during SGP99

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 373-377

  Mascaro, Giuseppe ^a   Vivoni, Enrique R ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

L and C band sensors; multifractal properties; soil moisture remote sensing; subfootprint variability

Indexed keywords

AIR-BORNE SENSORS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; C-BANDS; COARSE DOMAIN; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; LEVEL OF DETAIL; MULTI-FRACTAL PROPERTY; MULTIFRACTAL BEHAVIOR; MULTIFRACTALITY; NON-LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; PASSIVE MICROWAVE SENSORS; POLARIMETRIC SCANNING RADIOMETER; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SCALE INVARIANCE; SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION; SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SUBFOOTPRINT VARIABILITY; THINNED ARRAY;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; FRACTALS; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TEMPERATURE;

SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 84858070388     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2011.2169770     Document Type: Article

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