Retrieving soil moisture over bare soil from ERS 1 synthetic aperture radar data: Sensitivity analysis based on a theoretical surface scattering model and field data

Water Resources Research

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 653-661

  Altese, Elio ^a   Bolognani, Orsola ^a   Mancini, Marco ^a   Troch, Peter A ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BARE SOIL; ERS-1 SAR; ROUGHNESS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE;

ITALY, NAPLES;

EID: 0029668307     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95WR03638     Document Type: Article

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