Estimating surface soil moisture and soil roughness over semiarid areas from the use of the copolarization ratio

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 432-445

  Magagi, R D ^a   Kerr, Y H ^b  

^a CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

^b CESBIO   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BACKSCATTERING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WETTING;

SOIL ROUGHNESS;

COPOLYMERIZATION;

BACKSCATTER; ERS-1; REMOTE SENSING; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 0035740188     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(00)00185-1     Document Type: Article

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