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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Microwave Remote Sensing"”.
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Computational electomagnetics in microwave remote sensing
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1994.
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Multisensor Microwave Remote Sensing in the Cryosphere
… interest in monitoring this important region. Microwave remote sensing has proven to be a useful tool in estimating sea and glacial ice surface characteristics with both scatterometers and radiometers exhibiting high sensitivity to important ice properties. This dissertation presents an array …
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Optical and microwave remote sensing of wheat and canola
… and indirectly related to factors driving microwave backscatter.
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Microwave Remote Sensing of Saharan Ergs and Amazon Vegetation
This dissertation focuses on relating spaceborne microwave data to the geophysical characteristics of the Sahara desert and the Amazon vegetation. Radar and radiometric responses of the Saharan ergs are related to geophysical properties of sand formations and near surface winds. The spatial and …
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Theoretical models for microwave remote sensing of earth terrain
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1984.
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Theoretical models for microwave remote sensing of forests and vegetation
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.
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Microwave remote sensing of water in the soil - plant system
Remotely sensed measurements made by radars or radiometers in the low microwave frequency range are sensitive to soil moisture, soil roughness, and vegetation water content. Measurements made at multiple polarizations can be used to determine additional ancillary parameters alongside the primary …
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Microwave remote sensing of near-surface moisture and temperature profiles.
Thesis. 1976. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Theoretical studies for microwave remote sensing of layered random media
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 1980.
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Microwave Remote Sensing of the Greenland Ice Sheet: Models and Applications
Spaceborne microwave sensors are powerful tools for monitoring the impacts of global climate change on the Greenland ice sheet. This dissertation focuses on refining methods for applying microwave data in Greenland studies by using new simple theoretical and empirical models to investigate (1) …
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Microwave remote sensing of young sea ice in the Greenland Sea
During winter 1993 data from satellite remote sensing and two research cruises showed the Odden ice tongue in the Greenland Sea to consist predominantly of young sea ice in the form of frazil and pancake ice. These young ice types have been implicated in the preconditioning of the ocean for deep …
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Forward and inverse problems in microwave remote sensing of objects in complex media
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, February 2000.
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Characterizing Surface Water from Space with Microwave Remote Sensing: Advancing Conventional and Emerging Approaches
… is to extend the capabilities of satellite microwave remote sensing techniques to map hydrodynamic ecosystems and investigate related Earth-science questions. This thesis examines inundation detection using three independent approaches: (1) a combination of coarse-resolution active and …
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Satellite Microwave Remote Sensing of Boreal-Arctic Land Surface State and Meteorology from AMSR-E
… wetness information from the EOS Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E) on the Aqua satellite for eight Boreal forest and Arctic tundra biophysical monitoring sites across Alaska and northern Canada. Daily vapor pressure deficit is determined by employing AMSR-E daily …
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Satellite Microwave Remote Sensing of Boreal-Arctic Land Surface State and Meteorology from AMSR-E
… wetness information from the EOS Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E) on the Aqua satellite for eight Boreal forest and Arctic tundra biophysical monitoring sites across Alaska and northern Canada. Daily vapor pressure deficit is determined by employing AMSR-E daily …
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Fine Characterization of Leafing Phenology in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest by Optical and Microwave Remote Sensing
… is therefore poorly characterized by optical remote sensing methods which are not sensitive to small variations in water content in canopy constituents and sensitive to cloud cover. Meanwhile, microwave radar is sensitive to vegetation moisture and so I ask whether radar remote sensing data …
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Uncertainties in Oceanic Microwave Remote Sensing: The Radar Footprint, the Wind-Backscatter Relationship, and the Measurement Probability Density Function
<p>Oceanic microwave remote sensing provides the data necessary for the estimation of significant geophysical parameters such as the near-surface vector wind. To obtain accurate estimates, a precise understanding of the measurements is critical. This work clarifies and quantifies specific …
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Hillslope-scale soil moisture estimation with a physically-based ecohydrology model and L-band microwave remote sensing observations from space
… estimates with noisy active and passive L-band microwave observations. Uncertainty in the modeled soil moisture state is estimated through Monte Carlo simulations with an existing spatially distributed ecohydrology model. Application of the EnKF to estimate hillslope-scale soil moisture in a …
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Coupled Behaviour of Soil and Plant Water Dynamics: Effects of Vegetation Cover, Soil Type and Fire Disturbance
… and plant water dynamics. In this thesis, I use microwave remote sensing observations of soil and plant water dynamics at a kilometre scale to investigate the relationship between them and several other land surface processes and variables. I ask the following primary research question: how do …
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