Mapping surface roughness and soil moisture using multi-angle radar imagery without ancillary data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 391-402

  Rahman, M M ^a   Moran, M S ^a   Thoma, D P ^a   Bryant, R ^a   Holifield Collins, C D ^a   Jackson, T ^b   Orr, B J ^c   Tischler, M ^d  

^a SOUTHWEST WATERSHED RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d Topographic Engineering Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Active microwave; ENVISAT ASAR; Integral Equation Model; Radar; Soil moisture; Surface roughness

Indexed keywords

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ACTIVE MICROWAVE; INTEGRAL EQUATION MODEL;

SOIL MOISTURE;

BACKSCATTER; DATA; ENVISAT-1; MAPPING; MOISTURE CONTENT; RADAR; RADAR IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING; ROCK; ROUGHNESS; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 38049017569     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2006.10.026     Document Type: Article

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