Sensitivity of Aquarius Active and Passive Measurements Temporal Covariability to Land Surface Characteristics

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 4700-4711

  Piles, María ^a,b   McColl, Kaighin A ^c   Entekhabi, Dara ^c   Das, Narendra ^d   Pablos, Miriam ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b Passeig Maritim de la Barceloneta   (Spain)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active passive; Aquarius SAC D mission; L band microwave remote sensing; radiometer; scatterometer; Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RESOLUTION; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MOISTURE; NASA; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VEGETATION;

GEOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; LAND SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS; SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE PASSIVE (SMAP); SPACEBORNE RADIOMETRY; SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE-SOIL-MOISTURE ESTIMATION; VEGETATION SEASONALITY;

SOIL SURVEYS;

AQUARIUS; BACKSCATTER; ESTIMATION METHOD; LAND SURFACE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTEROMETER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 84925115002     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2015.2407611     Document Type: Article

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