A simplified physically-based algorithm for surface soil moisture retrieval using AMSR-E data

Frontiers of Earth Science

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 427-438

  Zeng, Jiangyuan ^a,b   Li, Zhen ^a   Chen, Quan ^a   Bi, Haiyun ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

AMSR E; inversion; passive microwave remote sensing; SMOS; soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AMSR-E; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIZATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL PROPERTY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 84903717570     PISSN: 20950195     EISSN: 20950209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11707-014-0412-4     Document Type: Article

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