Temporal stability of soil moisture and radar backscatter observed by the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR)

Sensors

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1174-1197

  Wagner, Wolfgang ^a   Pathe, Carsten ^a   Doubkova, Marcela ^a   Säbel, Daniel ^a   Bartsch, Annett ^a   Hasenauer, Stefan ^a   Blöschl, Günter ^a   Scipal, Klaus ^b   Martínez Fernández, José ^c   Löw, Alexander ^d  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Backscatter; SAR; Scaling; Soil moisture; Temporal stability

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SOIL MOISTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

ADVANCED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; REDISTRIBUTION PROCESS; SCALING; SOIL MOISTURE NETWORKS; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL STABILITY;

SOIL SURVEYS;

EID: 40849084045     PISSN: 14243210     EISSN: 14248220     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s80201174     Document Type: Article

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