Mapping global surface roughness using AMSR-E passive microwave remote sensing

Geoderma

Volumn 235-236, Issue , 2014, Pages 308-315

  Chen, X Z ^a,b   Li, Y ^c   Su, Y X ^c   Han, L S ^c   Liao, J S ^d   Yang, S B ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer Earth Observing System (AMSR E); Passive microwave remote sensing; Physical based retrieval model; Surface roughness

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREEZING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW; TEMPERATURE;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER; AVERAGE SURFACE ROUGHNESS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATIONS; RETRIEVAL MODELS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

AMSR-E; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOW COVER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 84907316669     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2014.07.026     Document Type: Article

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