A new empirical model to retrieve soil moisture and roughness from C-band radar data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 42-52

  Zribi, Mehrez ^a   Dechambre, Monique ^a  

^a SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; CORRELATION METHODS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MOISTURE; RADAR CROSS SECTION; SENSORS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

SOIL MOISTURE CONTENT;

SOIL TESTING;

ALGORITHM; BACKSCATTER; BARE SOIL; RADAR ALTIMETRY; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 0037211220     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(02)00069-X     Document Type: Article

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