Large-area soil moisture estimation using multi-incidence-angle RADARSAT-1 SAR data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2528-2535

  Srivastava, Hari Shanker ^a   Patel, Parul ^a   Sharma, Yamini ^b   Navalgund, Ranganath R ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^b FEROZE GANDHI COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Crop cover; Multi incidence angle SAR; RADARSAT 1 SAR; Soil moisture; Soil texture; Surface roughness; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL AREAS; HIGH INCIDENCE; MULTI-INCIDENCE-ANGLE SAR; RADARSAT 1; RADARSAT-1 SAR; SAR BACKSCATTER; SAR DATA; SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SOIL TEXTURE; SOIL TEXTURES; SOIL TYPES; TEST SITE;

BACKSCATTERING; CROPS; ESTIMATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GROUNDWATER; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; IMAGING SYSTEMS; METAL ANALYSIS; MOISTURE CONTROL; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PERMITTIVITY; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TESTING; SPACE PLATFORMS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TEXTURES;

SOIL SURVEYS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CROP; DATA SET; RADARSAT; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEXTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 67949120266     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2018448     Document Type: Article

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