A robust statistical-based estimator for soil moisture retrieval from radar measurements

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 57-67

  Dawson, Michael S ^a   Fung, Adrian K ^a   Manry, Michael T ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ESTIMATION; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; NEURAL NETWORKS; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SOILS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EMPIRICAL MODELS; INVERSION METHOD; SOIL MOISTURE;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

EID: 0030736980     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.551934     Document Type: Article

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