Radar bistatic configurations for soil moisture retrieval: A simulation study

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3252-3264

  Pierdicca, Nazzareno ^a   Pulvirenti, Luca ^a   Ticconi, Francesca ^a   Brogioni, Marco ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IFAC CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Radar measurements; Soil miosture; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; CORRELATION METHODS; CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; GROUNDWATER; IMAGING SYSTEMS; KETONES; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; OPTICAL BISTABILITY; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; PERMITTIVITY; POLARIZATION; RADAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

AUTO-CORRELATION FUNCTION; BARE SOILS; BI-STATIC RADAR; BISTATIC; BISTATIC MEASUREMENTS; CONSTANT VALUE; CORRELATION LENGTHS; CRAMER-RAO LOWER BOUNDS; ELECTRO-MAGNETIC MODELING; ERROR VARIANCES; GAUSSIAN; MONOSTATIC; MONOSTATIC RADAR; OPTIMAL CONFIGURATIONS; RADAR MEASUREMENTS; REGRESSION ESTIMATORS; RETRIEVAL ACCURACY; ROUGH SURFACE SCATTERING; SIMULATION STUDIES; SINGLE-POLARIZATION; SOIL MIOSTURE; SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SPACE-BORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR); SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 53849122014     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.921495     Document Type: Conference Paper

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