Soil moisture retrievals from the windSat spaceborne polarimetric microwave radiometer

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 7 PART 2, 2012, Pages 2683-2694

  Parinussa, Robert M ^a   Holmes, Thomas R H ^a   De Jeu, Richard A M ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometry; moisture; parameter estimation

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER FOR EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; AVERAGE VALUES; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GLOBAL SCALE; IN-SITU; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; INCIDENCE ANGLES; KA BAND; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; MULTI FREQUENCY; PARAMETER RETRIEVAL; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; SATELLITE SENSORS; SATELLITE SOIL MOISTURE; SENSOR CALIBRATION; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SPACE-BORNE; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; WINDSAT;

MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVE SENSORS; MOISTURE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIMETERS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITES; TEMPERATURE;

SOIL MOISTURE;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSOR; SOIL MOISTURE; WINDSAT;

EID: 84862989009     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2174643     Document Type: Article

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