Model investigation of the effect of vegetation on passive microwave soil moisture retrieval

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4894, Issue , 2003, Pages 140-149

  Zhang, Zhongjun ^a,b   Sun, Guoqing ^c  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Beijing Key Laboratory for Remote Sensing of Environment and Digital Cities   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

AMSR E; Emissivity; Single scattering albedo; Stokes matrix

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; MICROWAVES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOMETRY; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURVEYS; VEGETATION;

EFFECTIVE DIELECTRIC CONSTANTS; EMISSIVITY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SINGLE SCATTERING ALBEDO; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; STOKES MATRICES;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84888987944     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.466080     Document Type: Conference Paper

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