Remote sensing of bare surface soil moisture using EMAC/ESAR data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2105-2124

  Su, Z ^a   Troch, P A ^a   De Troch, F P ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LAND USE; MAPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; MOISTURE; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SOILS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BARE SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE; EUROPEAN MULTISENSOR AIRBORNE CAMPAIGN (EMAC); EXPERIMENTAL SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (ESAR); TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

BARE SOIL; EMAC/ESAR; LAND USE; MAPPING; RADIOMETER; REMOTE SENSING; ROSIS; SAR; SOIL MOISTURE; SPECTROMETER;

BELGIUM, ZWALM;

EID: 0031182348     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014311697217783     Document Type: Article

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