Potential of estimating soil moisture under vegetation cover by means of PolSAR

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 442-454

  Hajnsek, Irena ^a   Jagdhuber, Thomas ^a   Schön, Helmut ^a   Papathanassiou, Konstantinos Panagiotis ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Model based decomposition; Polarimetric SAR (PolSAR); Scattering mechanisms; Surface soil moisture estimation

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; GROUNDWATER; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PERMITTIVITY; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADAR ANTENNAS; SCATTERING; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; VEGETATION;

AGRICULTURAL VEGETATIONS; CANONICAL MODELS; GROUND MEASUREMENTS; GROWING PERIODS; KEY PROBLEMS; MODEL-BASED DECOMPOSITION; POLARIMETRIC SAR (POLSAR); SAR DATUM; SAR POLARIMETRIES; SCATTERING MECHANISMS; SCATTERING PROCESS; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURES; SURFACE-SOIL-MOISTURE ESTIMATION; VEGETATION COVERS; VEGETATION SCATTERINGS; VOLUMETRIC SOIL MOISTURES;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

ESTIMATION METHOD; MODELING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SOIL MOISTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 59849109167     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2009642     Document Type: Conference Paper

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