Assessment of the operational applicability of RADARSAT-1 data for surface soil moisture estimation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 913-923

  Álvarez Mozos, Jesús ^a   Casalí, Javier ^a   González Audícana, María ^a   Verhoest, Niko E C ^b  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Hydrology; Integral equation model (IEM); Soil moisture retrieval

Indexed keywords

INTEGRAL EQUATION MODEL (IEM); ROUGHNESS MEASUREMENTS; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL; TILLAGES;

CATCHMENTS; HYDROLOGY; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; SOIL MECHANICS;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 33645659709     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.862248     Document Type: Conference Paper

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