Title :
Evaluation of Potential Error Sources for Soil Moisture Retrieval from Satellite Microwave Radiometer
Author :
Shi, Jiancheng ; Njoku, E.G. ; Jackson, T. ; O´Neill, Peggy
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Comput. Earth Syst. Sci., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA
fDate :
July 31 2006-Aug. 4 2006
Abstract :
This study demonstrates the impacts of land water, dry snow cover, and terrain at sub-pixel scale on soil estimation through numerical simulations. We will demonstrate the quantity of the above different factors contributing to the errors on the soil moisture estimation.
Keywords :
error analysis; hydrology; moisture; remote sensing; soil; dry snow cover; land water; potential error sources evaluation; satellite microwave radiometer; soil moisture estimation; terrain; Dielectric constant; Frequency; L-band; Land surface; Microwave radiometry; Satellite broadcasting; Snow; Soil moisture; Temperature dependence; Water resources;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2006. IGARSS 2006. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Denver, CO
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9510-7
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2006.118
