Using a priori information to improve soil moisture retrieval from ENVISAT ASAR AP data in semiarid regions

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 900-911

  Mattia, Francesco ^a,b   Satalino, Giuseppe ^b   Dente, Laura ^b   Pasquariello, Guido ^b,c  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATION   (Italy)

^c International Users Committee of Vegetation Programme

Author keywords

A priori information; ENVISAT; Model inversion; Retrieval algorithms; Soil moisture; Soil roughness; Surface scattering; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

A PRIORI INFORMATION; ENVISAT; MODEL INVERSION; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL ROUGHNESS; SURFACE SCATTERING;

ALGORITHMS; ARID REGIONS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MOISTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATERSHEDS;

SOIL MECHANICS;

EID: 33645670063     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.863483     Document Type: Conference Paper

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