Remote monitoring of soil moisture using passive microwave-based techniques - Theoretical basis and overview of selected algorithms for AMSR-E

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 144, Issue , 2014, Pages 197-213

  Mladenova, I E ^a   Jackson, T J ^a   Njoku, E ^b   Bindlish, R ^c   Chan, S ^b   Cosh, M H ^a   Holmes, T R H ^a   de Jeu, R A M ^d   Jones, L ^e,f   Kimball, J ^e,f   Paloscia, S ^g   Santi, E ^g  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^g CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Algorithms; AMSR E; Forward inverse modeling; Passive microwave; Radiative transfer modeling; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893922324     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.01.013     Document Type: Article

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