Comparison of two methods for extracting surface soil moisture from C-band radar imagery

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 827-830

  Thoma, D ^a   Moran, M ^a   Bryant, R ^a   Collins, C Holifield ^a   Rahman, M ^a   Skirvin, S ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST WATERSHED RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

IEM; Radar; Rock fragments; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SENSORS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; SATELLITES; SOILS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

INTEGRAL EQUATION METHOD (IEM); ORBITING RADAR SATELLITES; ROCK FRAGMENTS; SOIL MOISTURE;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 15944381294     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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