Similarities between spaceborne active and airborne passive microwave observations at 1 km resolution

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2178-2182

  Rudiger, Christoph ^a   Doubkova, Marcela ^b,c   Larsen, Joshua R ^d   Wagner, Wolfgang ^b   Walker, Jeffrey P ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Disaggregation; environmental monitoring; microwave passive and active remote sensing; satellites; soil moisture

Indexed keywords

SATELLITES; SOIL MOISTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ADVANCED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; DISAGGREGATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HETEROGENEOUS LANDSCAPES; MICROWAVE PASSIVES; PASSIVE MICROWAVE DATA; PHYSICAL INTERACTIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

MICROWAVES;

EID: 84903512114     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2014.2323712     Document Type: Article

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