Published July 1986
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Microwave Penetration and Attenuation in Desert Soil: A Field Experiment with the Shuttle Imaging Radar
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Abstract
Receivers buried in the Nevada desert were used with the Shuttle Imaging Radar to measure microwave attenuation as a function of soil moisture in situ. Results agree closely with laboratory measureements of attenuation and suggest that penetration of tens of centimeters in desert soils is common for L-band (1.2-GHz) radar.
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© 1986 IEEE. Manuscript received November 21, 1985; revised February 3, 1986. This work was carried out by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with NASA. The authors would like to thank A. Gabriel and K. Nathan of JPL, and D. Massonnet of CNES, France for assistance in the field; and the SIR-B Mission Operations Team for updates during the mission, without which this study could not have been accomplished.Attached Files
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