SMOS optical thickness changes in response to the growth and development of crops, crop management, and weather

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 180, Issue , 2016, Pages 320-333

  Hornbuckle, Brian K ^a   Patton, Jason C ^a,c   VanLoocke, Andy ^a   Suyker, Andrew E ^b   Roby, Matthew C ^a   Walker, Victoria A ^a   Iyer, Eswar R ^a,d   Herzmann, Daryl E ^a   Endacott, Erik A ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Annual crops; Corn (maize); L band; Optical thickness; Passive microwave remote sensing (microwave radiometry); Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS); Soybean; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; MOISTURE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RATIONAL FUNCTIONS; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; SPACE OPTICS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VEGETATION;

CORN (MAIZE); L-BAND; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; OPTICAL THICKNESS; SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY (SMOS); SOYBEAN;

CROPS;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; BIOPHYSICS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; GROWTH RATE; LAND SURFACE; MAIZE; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; OPTICAL DEPTH; PIXEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SMOS; SOLAR RADIATION; SOYBEAN; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VEGETATION COVER;

GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84977854674     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.02.043     Document Type: Article

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