L-Band Relative Permittivity of Organic Soil Surface Layers—A New Dataset of Resonant Cavity Measurements and Model Evaluation

Global surface soil moisture products are derived from passive L-band microwave satellite observations. The applied retrieval algorithms include dielectric models (relating soil water content to relative permittivity) developed for mineral soils. First efforts to generate equivalent models for areas...

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Main Authors: Simone Bircher, François Demontoux, Stephen Razafindratsima, Elena Zakharova, Matthias Drusch, Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Yann H. Kerr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-12-01
Series:Remote Sensing
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/8/12/1024