Soil moisture and thermal behavior in the vicinity of buried objects affecting remote sensing detection: Experimental and modeling investigation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2675-2688

  Smits, Kathleen M ^a   Cihan, Abdullah ^b   Sakaki, Toshihiro ^a   Howington, Stacy E ^c   Peters, John F ^c   Illangasekare, Tissa H ^a  

^a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c US ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental factors; Geoscience and remote sensing; Land surface; Landmine detection; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; GEOSCIENCES; LAND MINE DETECTION; LAND SURFACE; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; THERMAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

EXPLOSIVES; METAL DETECTORS; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; VAPORS;

ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; DETECTION METHOD; DIFFUSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LANDMINE; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATURATION; SENSOR; SIMULATION; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 84885021218     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2214485     Document Type: Article

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