Analyzing the Vegetation Parameterization in the TU-Wien ASCAT Soil Moisture Retrieval

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 3513-3531

  Vreugdenhil, Mariette ^a   Dorigo, Wouter A ^a   Wagner, Wolfgang ^a   De Jeu, Richard A M ^b   Hahn, Sebastian ^a   Van Marle, Margreet J E ^c  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b VanderSat BV   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer Earth Observing System (AMSR E); Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT); soil moisture; vegetation optical depth

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; FORESTRY; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MOISTURE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; REMOTE SENSING; SOILS; VEGETATION;

INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; PARAMETER RETRIEVAL; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; TEMPORAL CORRELATIONS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION OPTICAL DEPTH;

SOIL MOISTURE;

AMSR-E; ANNUAL VARIATION; ASCAT; BACKSCATTER; BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; CORRECTION; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARAMETERIZATION; PHENOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SIGNAL; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AUSTRIA; VIENNA;

EID: 84976207486     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2016.2519842     Document Type: Article

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