IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine - March 2015 - 1

march 2015
Volume 3, Number 1
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FEaturES

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Frequency-Agile Radar Electronics for the Soil
Moisture Active/Passive (SMAP) Mission
by Mark Fischman, Samuel Chan,
Nelson Huang, and Kyung Pak

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Physical Vulnerability Proxies from Remote
Sensing: Reviewing, Implementing and
Disseminating Selected Techniques
by Mostapha Harb, Daniele De Vecchi,
and Fabio Dell'Acqua

© coreL

Pg. 20

On the cOver:
(1) Artistic rendering of the SMAP
Obser vator y remotely sensing
surface soil moisture and freeze/
thaw state from low-Earth orbit.
(2) The SM AP Spacecraft in its
stowed configuration as it is processed during launch operations
at Vandenberg A ir Force Base,
California.
Background image courtesy of smaP
Project (nasa/jPL).
inset image courtesy of nasa
kennedy sPace center media gaLLery.

SCOPE
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