Statistical Characteristics of Simulated Radar Imagery from Bare Soil Surfaces: Effects of Surface Roughness and Soil Moisture Variability

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 159-168

  Rundquist, Donald C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b HUGHES STX CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SOILS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

BARE SOIL SURFACES; SIMULATED RADAR IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE VARIABILITY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0028054605     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.285198     Document Type: Article

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