Taking into account vegetation effects to estimate soil moisture from C-band radar measurements

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 52-56

  Taconet, O ^a   Vidal Madjar, D ^a   Emblanch, Ch ^b   Normand, M ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; C-BAND RADAR; CLOUD MODEL; SAR; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION ATTENUATION;

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

RADAR REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION ATTENUATION; VEGETATION DENSITY;

SOILS;

EID: 0029666680     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0034-4257(95)00212-X     Document Type: Article

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