A time-series approach to estimate soil moisture using polarimetric radar data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2519-2527

  Kim, Yunjin ^a   Van Zyl, Jakob J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Moisture; Polarimetric radar; Soil; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Time series

Indexed keywords

APRIORI; BACKSCATTERING CROSS SECTION; COPOLARIZED BACKSCATTERING; DIELECTRIC CONSTANTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; MODEL FUNCTIONS; NATURAL OBJECTS; POLARIMETRIC RADAR; POLARIMETRIC RADARS; RADAR DATA; RETRIEVAL ACCURACY; ROUGH SURFACES; SCATTERING SURFACE; THEORETICAL ALGORITHMS; TIME-SCALES; VOLUMETRIC SOIL MOISTURES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GROUNDWATER; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PERMITTIVITY; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SCATTERING; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TIME SERIES;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ALGORITHM; BACKSCATTER; DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; POLARIZATION; RADAR; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 67949118794     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2014944     Document Type: Article

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