Soil moisture retrieval from remotely sensed data: Neural network approach versus Bayesian method

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 547-557

  Notarnicola, Claudia ^b   Angiulli, Mariella ^b,c   Posa, Francesco ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^c IFAC CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayesian approach; Inversion, neural networks (NNs); Radar data; Soil moisture (SM)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; NEURAL NETWORKS; POLARIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BAYESIAN APPROACH; RADAR DATA;

SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 38349098973     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.909951     Document Type: Conference Paper

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