Mapping Soil Moisture Using RADARSAT-2 Data and Local Autocorrelation Statistics

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 128-137

  Merzouki, Amine ^a   McNairn, Heather ^a   Pacheco, Anna ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Backscatter models; Getis; RADARSAT 2; soil moisture mapping; spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER MODEL; GETIS; RADARSAT-2; SOIL MOISTURE MAPPING; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS;

AUTOCORRELATION; BACKSCATTERING; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ESTIMATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAPPING; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; POLARIZATION; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TABLE LOOKUP;

SOIL SURVEYS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AUTOCORRELATION; BACKSCATTER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; MAPPING; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADARSAT; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 79953114855     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2011.2116769     Document Type: Article

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