Quantitative retrieval of soil moisture content and surface roughness from multipolarized radar observations of bare soil surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 596-601

  Oh, Yisok ^a  

^a Hong Ik University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Backscattering coefficient; Direct inversion model; Semiempirical polarimetric model; Soil moisture; Surface roughness

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; SOILS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENT; BARE SOIL; INTEGRAL EQUATION METHOD; MULTIPOLARIZED RADAR OBSERVATIONS; QUANTITATIVE RETRIEVAL;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 1842481555     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.821065     Document Type: Article

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