Soil organic carbon as a factor in passive microwave retrievals of soil water content over agricultural croplands

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 528, Issue , 2015, Pages 643-651

  Manns, Hida R ^a   Berg, Aaron A ^a   Colliander, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brightness temperature; Passive microwave remote sensing; SMAP satellite; Soil dielectric constant; Soil organic carbon; Soil water content

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANTENNAS; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; HYDROLOGY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MOISTURE; ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VEGETATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; SOIL DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL WATER CONTENT;

SOILS;

EID: 84975857213     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.06.058     Document Type: Article

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