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  title info:
    title: Microwave Dielectric Behavior of Wet Soils
  name:
    name part: Behari, Jitendra.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 164 p. online resource.
  abstract: Soil moisture plays an important role in the runoff process, and its evaluation can be used as a marker of flood risk or drought occurrence. The data is also required to validate the soil moisture component in a variety of soil types of hydrologic models before a possible flood event, and potentially improves the accuracy of their prediction. Keeping the above in view, enormous efforts have gone into measurement of soil moisture by in situ and remote sensing techniques using microwaves. The subject still remains an important point of investigation for it depends upon a number of parameters, for example, texture, topography and shows space and temporal variability. The advantages of both passive and active remote sensing techniques are discussed in detail. The book begins with the basics of soil physics and the soil moisture. Soil moisture measurement techniques presented are confined to microwave frequencies. A summary of theoretical models and a mix-up of experimental and theoretical details is included to offer a comparison. A special chapter is added on an upcoming technique of synthetic aperture radar. The book finally concludes with a summary of recent trends and techniques with a possible direction for future work. The book is primarily aimed to benefit postgraduates and researchers in the area of soil, agriculture physics and microwave remote sensing. The aim is to initiate beginners in the subject. The author will consider his efforts rewarded if it succeeds in such an endeavor.
  table of contents: Physical Properties of Soil -- Dielectric Behavior of Soil -- Measurement of Soil Water Content -- Microwave Remote Sensing Techniques in Soil Moisture Estimation -- Dielectric Constant of Soil -- Soil Moisture Models -- Synthetic Aperture Radiometer -- Conclusion and Future Challenges in Remote Sensing.
  note: by Jitendra Behari.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Sedimentology
  subject:
    topic: Atmospheric sciences
  subject:
    topic: Remote sensing
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
  subject:
    topic: Soil science
  subject:
    topic: Soil conservation
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Sedimentology
  subject:
    topic: Soil Science & Conservation
  subject:
    topic: Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry
  subject:
    topic: Atmospheric Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
  classification: QE471-471.15
  classification: 551.3
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing, 8
  identifier: 9781402032882
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3288-9
  record info:
    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204140635.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4020-3288-2