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