Airborne Microwave Radiometric Measurements of Soil Moisture and Comparison with Sar Data
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Soil moisture (SMC) is a key state variable that influences both global water and energy budgets by controlling the redistribution of rainfall into infiltration, runoff, percolation in soil, and evapotranspiration. Due to these characteristics and to the great effect on the surface energy exchange, soil moisture content may have a strong impact on climate change dynamics and it is, therefore, a very important parameter for all hydrological applications, such as floods and drought monitoring, weather forecast, water and agriculture management.
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