FUSION of ACTIVE and PASSIVE MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS to CREATE AN ESSENTIAL CLIMATE VARIABLE DATA RECORD ON SOIL MOISTURE

ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 315-321

  Wagner, W ^a   Dorigo, Wouter ^a   De Jeu, Richard ^b   Fernandez, DIego ^c   Benveniste, Jerome ^c   Haas, Eva ^d   Ertl, Martin ^e  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

^d GeoVille GmbH   (Austria)

^e Angewandte Wissenschaft Software und Technologie GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Calibration; Change detection; Climate; Fusion; Hydrology; Radar; Radiometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 85035809140     PISSN: 21949042     EISSN: 21949050     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5194/isprsannals-I-7-315-2012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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