Impact of conifer forest litter on microwave emission at L-band

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1071-1084

  Kurum, Mehmet ^a   O'Neill, Peggy E ^a   Lang, Roger H ^b   Cosh, Michael H ^c   Joseph, Alicia T ^a   Jackson, Thomas J ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b George Washington University   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest; litter; microwave radiometry; radiative transfer; soil

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE/PASSIVE; AVERAGE DIAMETER; AVERAGE HEIGHT; BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CONIFER FORESTS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FIELD CAMPAIGN; FIRST-ORDER; FOREST; FOREST EMISSION; FOREST FLOORS; FOREST STAND; GROUND BASED; GROUND MEASUREMENTS; GROUND TRUTH; GROUND TRUTH DATA; INSTRUMENT SYSTEMS; LITTER; LITTER LAYER; MARYLAND; MICROWAVE DATA; MICROWAVE EMISSIONS; MICROWAVE MODELING; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; MINERAL SOILS; MODEL CALCULATIONS; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; PINE FOREST; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SURFACE LAYERS; SURFACE LITTER; TEST SITE; TRANSITION LAYERS; VIRGINIA; WET SOIL;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; MICROWAVES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SOILS; TEMPERATURE;

FORESTRY;

BIOPHYSICS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONIFEROUS TREE; FOREST FLOOR; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HEIGHT; LITTER; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MINERAL; MOISTURE CONTENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLARIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SOIL EMISSION; STAND STRUCTURE;

DBH; FOREST LITTER; HUMIDITY; MICROWAVES; PINUS VIRGINIANA; RADIATION; RADIOMETRY; SOFTWOODS; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

MARYLAND; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA; PINUS VIRGINIANA;

EID: 84859758535     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2166272     Document Type: Article

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