Retrieving soil moisture for non-forested areas using PALS radiometer measurements in SMAPVEX12 field campaign

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 184, Issue , 2016, Pages 86-100

  Colliander, Andreas ^a   Njoku, Eni G ^a   Jackson, Thomas J ^b   Chazanoff, Seth ^a   McNairn, Heather ^c   Powers, Jarrett ^c   Cosh, Michael H ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

PALS; SMAP; SMAPVEX12; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MOISTURE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PLASMA INTERACTIONS; RADIOMETERS; SAND; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; SURFACE SCATTERING;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; PALS; PARAMETERIZED ALGORITHM; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE; SMAP; SMAPVEX12; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE;

SOIL SURVEYS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ALGORITHM; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DATA SET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRASSLAND; LAND COVER; MEASUREMENT METHOD; RADIOMETER; SATELLITE DATA; SCATTERING; SOIL MOISTURE;

CANADA; MANITOBA;

EID: 84975502189     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.06.001     Document Type: Article

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