Refinement of SMOS multiangular brightness temperature toward soil moisture retrieval and its analysis over reference targets

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 589-603

  Zhao, Tianjie ^a,b   Shi, Jiancheng ^a,b   Bindlish, Rajat ^c   Jackson, Thomas J ^c   Kerr, Yann H ^d   Cosh, Michael H ^c   Cui, Qian ^a,b   Li, Yunqing ^a,b   Xiong, Chuan ^a,b   Che, Tao ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b JOINT CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHANGE STUDIES   (China)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d CESBIO   (France)

^e Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Brightness temperature; intercomparison; soil moisture; soil moisture ocean salinity (SMOS); WindSat

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; LUMINANCE; MOISTURE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SOILS; TEMPERATURE;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; INTERCOMPARISONS; MULTIANGULAR OBSERVATIONS; RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE; SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE PASSIVE (SMAP); SOIL MOISTURE OCEAN SALINITIES; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; WINDSAT;

SOIL MOISTURE;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESERT; ICE SHEET; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RAINFOREST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SMOS; SOIL MOISTURE; WINDSAT;

AMAZONIA; ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; ANTARCTICA; SAHARA;

EID: 85027935916     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2336664     Document Type: Article

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