SAR Observations and Modeling of the C-Band Backscatter Variability Due to Multiscale Geometr and Soil Moisture

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1990, Pages 886-895

  Beaudoin, A ^a   Toan, Thuy Le ^b   Gwyn, Q H J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b IRAP   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES - BACKSCATTERING; PROBABILITY - RANDOM PROCESSES; RADAR - SYNTHETIC APERTURE; RADAR IMAGING; SOILS - MOISTURE DETERMINATION;

C-BAND SAR IMAGES; SAR SOIL MOISTURE DATA; SOIL CLODS; SOIL RANDOM ROUGHNESS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0025491704     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.58978     Document Type: Article

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