Combined use of active and passive microwave satellite data to constrain a discrete scattering model

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 155, Issue , 2014, Pages 222-238

  Dente, L ^a   Ferrazzoli, P ^b   Su, Z ^a   van der Velde, R ^a   Guerriero, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Backscattering; Emissivity; Litter; Synergy; Tibetan Plateau; Tor Vergata model

Indexed keywords

EMISSIVITY; LITTER; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; SCATTERING MODEL; SYNERGY; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

BACKSCATTERING;

AMSR-E; AQUA (SATELLITE); ASCAT; BACKSCATTER; CALIBRATION; DATA ACQUISITION; EMISSIVITY; LEAF AREA INDEX; LITTER; METOP; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MODEL TEST; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE; SYNERGISM; VEGETATION COVER;

CHINA; GANSU; MAQU; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84909590703     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.08.031     Document Type: Article

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