An Empirical Model and an Inversion Technique for Radar Scattering from Bare Soil Surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 370-381

  Oh, Yisok ^a   Sarabandi, Kamal ^a   Ulaby, Fawwaz T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENTS; PROBABILITY - RANDOM PROCESSES; RADAR IMAGING; SOILS - MOISTURE DETERMINATION;

BARE SOIL SURFACES; INVERSION TECHNIQUE; POLARIMETRIC RADAR MEASUREMENTS;

SOILS;

EID: 0026838708     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.134086     Document Type: Article

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