Active microwave soil moisture sensing under vegetation cover

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2959, Issue , 1997, Pages 84-93

  Troch, Peter A ^a   Su, Zhongbo ^a   Colombo, P ^a   De Masi, Federico ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEMENTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FLOW INTERACTIONS; GROUNDWATER; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PERMITTIVITY; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; THEOREM PROVING; VEGETATION; WATER CONTENT;

ACTIVE MICROWAVES; ANTENNA CONFIGURATIONS; BACKSCATTERING MODELS; BARE SOILS; INCIDENCE ANGLES; INVERSION ALGORITHMS; ONE HANDS; RADAR SIGNALS; SOIL MOISTURE CONTENTS; SURFACE SCATTERING MODELS; THEORETICAL MODELS; VEGETATION COVERS; VEGETATION PARAMETERS; VOLUME SCATTERINGS; WAVE APPROACHES;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

EID: 58149390825     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.264257     Document Type: Conference Paper

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