Analysis of TerraSAR-X data and their sensitivity to soil surface parameters over bare agricultural fields

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 4370-4379

  Baghdadi, Nicolas ^a   Zribi, Mehrez ^b   Loumagne, Cécile ^c   Ansart, Patrick ^c   Anguela, Thais Paris ^b  

^a UMR TETIS   (France)

^b SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

ALOS PALSAR; ASAR ENVISAT; Soil moisture; Surface roughness; TerraSAR X

Indexed keywords

FLOW INTERACTIONS; FRICTION; FROZEN SOILS; POLARIZATION; RADAR; SOILS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ALOS/PALSAR; ASAR/ENVISAT; SOIL MOISTURE; TERRASAR-X;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; POLARIZATION; RADAR; ROUGHNESS; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 53849112945     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.08.004     Document Type: Article

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