Effects of near-surface soil moisture on GPS SNR data: Development of a retrieval algorithm for soil moisture

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 537-543

  Chew, Clara C ^a   Small, Eric E ^a   Larson, Kristine M ^b   Zavorotny, Valery U ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Global Positioning System (GPS); Radar; Reflectometry; Remote sensing; Soil

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIPS; MOISTURE VARIATION; REFLECTOMETRY; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SIGNALTONOISE RATIO (SNR); SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VOLUMETRIC SOIL MOISTURES;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INTERFEROMETRY; MODULATION; RADAR; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE ANTENNAS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; TRACKING (POSITION);

SOIL SURVEYS;

ALGORITHM; AMPLITUDE; ANTENNA; DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; GPS; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; REFLECTOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TYPE;

EID: 84890435601     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2242332     Document Type: Article

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