Frozen soil detection based on advanced scatterometer observations and air temperature data as part of soil moisture retrieval

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 3206-3231

  Zwieback, Simon ^a   Paulik, Christoph ^b   Wagner, Wolfgang ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Classification; Freeze thaw; Radar; Scatterometer; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FROZEN SOILS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MOISTURE; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS;

FREEZE/THAW; QUANTITATIVE INTERPRETATION; SCATTEROMETER MEASUREMENTS; SCATTEROMETERS; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SOIL TEMPERATURE DATA; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE; TIME SERIES MODELING;

SOIL SURVEYS;

EID: 84926334373     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70303206     Document Type: Article

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