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III. Measuring surface soil moisture using passive microwave remote sensing

✍ Scribed by Thomas J. Jackson

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1993
Tongue
English
Weight
976 KB
Volume
7
Category
Article
ISSN
0885-6087

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Soil moisture is one of the few directly observable hydrological variables that has an important role in water and energy budgets necessary for climate studies. At the present time there is no practical approach to measuring and monitoring soil moisture at the frequency and scale necessary for these large scale analyses. Current and developing satellite systems have not addressed this important question. A solution utilizing passive microwave remote sensing is presented here and an optimum system, soil moisture estimation algorithms and a microwave simulation model are described.

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