Surface soil humidity retrieval by means of a semi-empirical coupled SAR model

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7824, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Capodici, F ^a   La Loggia, G ^a   D'Urso, G ^b   Maltese, A ^a   Ciraolo, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

active microwave; coupled model; L band; multi polarized data; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MICROWAVE; AIRBORNE PLATFORMS; CLOUD COVER; COUPLED MODEL; COUPLED MODELS; DIELECTRIC CONSTANTS; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLOOD PREDICTION; GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTERS; GERMANY; IN-SITU; INTEGRATED APPROACH; IRRIGATION SCHEDULING; L BAND; MULTI-POLARIZED DATA; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; RELIABLE ASSESSMENT; REMOTELY SENSED DATA; SEMI-EMPIRICAL; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SOIL MOISTURE MODEL; SOIL WATER CONTENT; SOIL-VEGETATION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SURFACE RUNOFFS; SURFACE SOIL; TEST SITE; TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES; VEGETATION COVERAGE; WIDE AREA;

AGRICULTURE; ECOSYSTEMS; HEAT FLUX; HYDROLOGY; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; REMOTE SENSING; RESEARCH; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURVEYS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; UNDERWATER SOILS; VEGETATION; WATER; WATER CONTENT;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

EID: 78649750132     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.865096     Document Type: Conference Paper

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