Retrieving Chinas surface soil moisture and land surface temperature using AMSR-E brightness temperatures

Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 662-671

  Chen, Xiuzhi ^a,b   Su, Yongxian ^c   Li, Yong ^c   Han, Liusheng ^c   Liao, Jishan ^d   Yang, Shenbin ^b  

^a SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; LANDFORMS; LUMINANCE; RADIOMETERS; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; MICROWAVE POLARIZATIONS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; QINGHAI TIBET PLATEAU; RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATIONS; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE;

LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

AQUA (SATELLITE); BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; LAND SURFACE; MAPPING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION COVER;

CHINA;

EID: 84907318849     PISSN: 2150704X     EISSN: 21507058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2150704X.2014.960610     Document Type: Article

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