A new algorithm for soil moisture retrieval with L-band radiometer

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1147-1155

  Guo, Peng ^a,b   Shi, Jiancheng ^a   Liu, Qiang ^a,b   Du, Jinyang ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

L band; radiometer; SMAP; soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; L-BAND; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SENSOR CONFIGURATIONS; SMAP; SOIL DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; VEGETATION WATER CONTENT;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; POLARIZATION; RADIOMETERS; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ALGORITHM; DATABASE; DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; ESTIMATION METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; POLARIZATION; RADIOMETER; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL WATER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 84880305215     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2244852     Document Type: Article

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