Impact of Hillslope-Scale Organization of Topography, Soil Moisture, Soil Temperature, and Vegetation on Modeling Surface Microwave Radiation Emission

Impact of Hillslope-Scale Organization of Topography, Soil Moisture, Soil Temperature, and Vegetation on Modeling Surface Microwave Radiation Emission

Microwave radiometry will emerge as an important tool for global remote sensing of near-surface soil moisture in the coming decade. In this modeling study, we find that hillslope-scale topography (tens of meters) influences microwave brightness temperatures in a way that produces bias at coarser sca...

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Main Authors: Flores, Alejandro N., Ivanov, Valeriy Y., Entekhabi, Dara, Bras, Rafael L.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 2010
Subjects:
vegetation
topography
soil temperature
soil moisture
remote sensing
radiative transfer
observation bias
microwave radiometer
ecohydrology
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/52331
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8362-4761

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/52331
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8362-4761

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