Stream soil moisture estimation by reflected GPS signals with ground truth measurements

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 730-737

  Shen, Lie Chung ^a   Juang, Jyh Ching ^a   Tsai, Ching Lang ^a   Chang, Chia Chyang ^b   Ko, Ping Ya ^c   Tseng, Ching Liang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHING YUN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Global positioning system; Moisture measurements; Object detection; Reflection coefficient; Remote sensing; Rough surfaces; Soil measurements

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; ESTIMATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GROUNDWATER; MEASUREMENTS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; MOISTURE METERS; PERMITTIVITY; POLARIZATION; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; UNDERWATER SOILS; WATER CONTENT;

MOISTURE MEASUREMENTS; OBJECT DETECTION; REFLECTION COEFFICIENT; ROUGH SURFACES; SOIL MEASUREMENTS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

EID: 60849096358     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2008.2005821     Document Type: Article

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