B. J. Choudhury & Y. H. Kerr 
Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Land-Atmosphere Interactions [PDF ebook] 
[ESA/NASA International Workshop, Held at Saint Lary (France) from January 11–15, 1993]

Frontmatter — Contents — Preface — List of Authors — List of Reviewers — Subject index — Global and mesoscale modeling and data needs — Large-scale land-atmosphere models and data needs — Mesoscale land-atmosphere models and usefulness of microwave remote-sensing data — Snow cover and snow mass estimates from remote sensing, climatology and the United Kingdom Meteorological Office General Circulation Model — Soil moisture estimation: comparisons between hydrologic model estimates and remotely sensed estimates — Synergism — Sensitivity of active and passive microwave sensors to land parameters — Theory of microwave scattering from vegetation based on the collective scattering effects of discrete scatterers — Synergism of optical and microwave observations for land surface studies — Radiometry at infrared and microwave frequencies — Synergism of active and passive microwave data for estimating bare soil surface moisture — Snow — Intercomparison of snow retrieval algorithms by means of spaceborne microwave radiometry — Canadian development and use of snow cover information from passive microwave satellite data — Application of SSM/I data for snow cover and climate research — Size parameters of snow grains in scattering and emission models — Monitoring snow cover on the Tibetan Plateau using passive microwave satellite data — Passive microwave remote sensing of snow: volume scattering in snow and parametric inversion of snow parameters with an artificial neural network — Vegetation — Vegetation models and observations A review — Progress in multi-frequency radiometry of natural objects — Microwave emission from vegetation — Canopy opacity models — Modeling microwave emission from vegetation-covered surfaces: a parametric analysis — Retrieval of geophysical parameters from multifrequency passive microwave measurements over a soybean canopy — Soil moisture — Passive microwave radiation from soil: examples of emission models and observations — Estimation of soil moisture profiles and root zone moisture content by means of microwave radiometry and a priori information — Soil moisture estimation from multifrequency microwave radiometer data based on statistical inversion technique — Retrieval of soil moisture profile by combined remote sensing and modeling — Identification of snowcover using SSM/I measurements — Surface temperature — Surface temperature estimation over land using satellite microwave radiometry — Evaporation monitoring over land surface using microwave radiometry — A model for the radiobrightness of Northern Prairie — Atmospheric correction and precipitation — Overland precipitation — Theoretical foundations and verification of a multispectral, inversion-type microwave precipitation profile retrieval algorithm — Radiometric correction for atmospheric effects in surface sensing from aircraft and satellites — Instrumentation — The design of the ESA Multifrequency Imaging Microwave Radiometer (MIMR) — Working group reports — ESA/NASA St.-Lary Workshop 11-15 January 1993 Working Group Reports — Working group A1: Snow — Working group A2: Vegetation and temperature — Working group A3: Soil moisture — Working group A4: Atmospheric correction/precipitation — Working group B1: Modelling — Working group B2: Synergism