Comparison of four models to determine surface soil moisture from C-band radar imagery in a sparsely vegetated semiarid landscape

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Thoma, D P ^a   Moran, M S ^a   Bryant, R ^a   Rahman, M ^a   Holifield Collins, C D ^a   Skirvin, S ^a   Sano, E E ^b   Slocum, K ^c  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^c US ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; BACKSCATTERING; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MOISTURE; RADAR IMAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOILS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VEGETATION; WATERSHEDS;

C-BAND RADAR IMAGERY; IMAGE DIFFERENCE TECHNIQUES; IMAGE-BASED DELTA INDEX; TOPOGRAPHY;

SOIL MECHANICS;

ARID REGIONS; BACKSCATTERING; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MOISTURE; RADAR IMAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL MECHANICS; SOILS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VEGETATION; WATERSHEDS;

ESTIMATION METHOD; RADAR IMAGERY; RANGELAND; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURFACE;

EID: 33644797246     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003905     Document Type: Article

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