Empirically adopted IEM for retrieval of soil moisture from radar backscattering coefficients

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1662-1672

  Song, Kaijun ^a,b   Zhou, Xiaobing ^a   Fan, Yong ^b  

^a MONTANA TECH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Backscattering coefficient; Empirically adopted integral equation model (EA IEM); IEM; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MICROWAVE; AVERAGE DIFFERENCE; BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENT; BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; BARE SOILS; CORRELATION LENGTHS; EMPIRICALLY ADOPTED INTEGRAL EQUATION MODEL (EA-IEM); EXPONENTIAL CORRELATION; GAUSSIAN CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; IEM; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; INCIDENCE ANGLES; INTEGRAL EQUATION MODELS; INTERCOMPARISON; INVERSION PROCESS; MODEL COMPARISON; MODEL PARAMETERS; MOISTURE VARIATION; RADAR BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENT; RELATIVE CALIBRATIONS; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERRORS; SIMULATION RESULT; SOIL DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS;

BACKSCATTERING; CERAMIC CAPACITORS; DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; FUNCTIONS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GROUNDWATER; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PERMITTIVITY; POLARIZATION; RADAR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ALGORITHM; BACKSCATTER; EQUATION; MODELING; RADAR; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION;

EID: 67349273670     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2009061     Document Type: Conference Paper

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