Microwave land surface emissivity (MLSE) is an important geophysical parameter to determine the microwave radiative transfer over and has broad applications in satellite remote sensing of atmospheric parameters (e.g., precipitation, cloud properties), soil moisture, vegetation interactions between atmosphere terrestrial ecosystem evapotranspiration rate, gross primary production rate). In this ...

The Quasi-crystalline Approximation and the Dense Media Radiative Transfer Equation (QCADMRT) have been applied to active and passive microwave remote sensing of snow [1] [2]. The salient features of the model include weaker frequency dependence than Mie scattering for the same grain size and a stronger forward scattering than Rayleigh phase function. We use passive microwave satellite data fro...

This paper presents an evaluation of AMSR (Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer) soil moisture products, based on the comparison with three ground soil moisture networks. The selected ground sites are representative of various climatic, hydrologic and environmental conditions in temperate and semi-arid areas. They are located in the south-west of France, in the south-east of Australia and in ...

16 The goal of this work is to inter-compare four global land surface emissivity products over 17 various land-cover conditions to assess their consistency. The intercompared retrieved land 18 emissivity products were generated over five-year period (2003-2007) using observations from 19 the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer Earth Observing System (AMSR-E), Special 20 Sensor Microwave Imag...