Toward vicarious calibration of microwave remote-sensing satellites in arid environments

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1749-1760

  Rüdiger, Christoph ^a   Walker, Jeffrey P ^a   Kerr, Yann H ^b   Kim, Edward J ^c   Hacker, Jörg M ^d   Gurney, Robert J ^e   Barrett, Damian ^f   Le Marshall, John ^g  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CESBIO   (France)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^f CSIRO   (Australia)

^g BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Calibration; environmental monitoring; passive microwave remote sensing; soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; FORECASTING; LAKES; LANDFORMS; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HORIZONTAL POLARIZATION; INSTRUMENT CALIBRATIONS; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; REMOTE SENSING SATELLITES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE DIFFERENCES; SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY (SMOS);

CALIBRATION;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; POLARIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SALINITY; SATELLITE; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL VARIATION; VEGETATION;

AUSTRALIA; LAKE EYRE; SIMPSON DESERT; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84891560837     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2254121     Document Type: Article

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