Influence of surface roughness spatial variability and temporal dynamics on the retrieval of soil moisture from SAR observations

Sensors

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 463-489

  Álvarez Mozos, Jesús ^a   Verhoest, Niko E C ^b   Larrañaga, Arantzazu ^c   Casalí, Javier ^a   González Audícana, María ^a  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c Department of Earth Information Systems   (Spain)

Author keywords

Soil moisture retrieval; Surface roughness; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; EXPERIMENTAL WATERSHEDS; INTEGRAL EQUATION MODELS; SENSOR CONFIGURATIONS; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SURFACE BACKSCATTERING; SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL;

BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CULTIVATION; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; SENSORS; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

SOIL SURVEYS;

EID: 59249093363     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s90100463     Document Type: Article

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