Jc. Calvet et al., MICROWAVE DIELECTRIC-PROPERTIES OF A SILT-LOAM AT HIGH-FREQUENCIES, IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, 33(3), 1995, pp. 634-642
Microwave brightness temperatures at three frequencies (23.8, 36.5, an
d 90 GHz) of a carefully smoothed silt-loam were measured over a large
range of near-surface soil moisture conditions. The microwave data we
re collected simultaneously with ground observations of soil moisture,
soil temperature, and bulk density. The atmospheric downwelling radia
tion is computed from the French weather forecast model outputs and cl
oud coverage surface observations, Assuming that roughness effects are
negligible for the studied surface, Fresnel coefficients are used to
model soil reflectivities. The relationship between soil moisture and
soil reflectivity at high frequencies is then analyzed through existin
g semi-empirical models of the soil complex dielectric permittivity.