Initial validation of SMOS vegetation optical thickness in Iowa

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 647-651

  Patton, Jason ^a   Hornbuckle, Brian ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometry; soil; vegetation

Indexed keywords

CROP YIELD; DORMANT PERIOD; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; GROWING SEASON; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; LAND MANAGEMENTS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; OPTICAL THICKNESS; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SATELLITE MISSION; SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY (SMOS); SOIL SURFACES;

AGRICULTURE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

VEGETATION;

EID: 84870922977     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2012.2216498     Document Type: Article

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