Identification of soil moisture retrieval errors: Learning from the comparison of SMOS and ASCAT

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3795-3798

  Wagner, Wolfgang ^a   Hahn, Sebastian ^a   Gruber, Alexander ^a   Dorigo, Wouter ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Geophysical signal processing; Radar; Radiometers; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENTS; AUSTRALIA; DRY AND WET; GEOPHYSICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; GLOBAL SCALE; IN-SITU NETWORKS; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; SCATTEROMETERS; SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY MISSIONS; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; STRONG CONTRAST; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; VALIDATION STUDY;

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; GEOLOGY; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADAR; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 84873112352     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350586     Document Type: Conference Paper

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