Soil moisture influences on the radar backscattering of sugar beet fields

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 184-194

  Schoups, G ^a   Troch, P A ^a   Verhoest, N ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PLANTS (BOTANY); RADAR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOILS; SUGAR BEETS;

SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL;

REMOTE SENSING;

BACKSCATTER; RADAR; SOIL MOISTURE;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 0032132245     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(98)00026-1     Document Type: Article

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