Radar retrieval of surface and deep soil moisture and effect of moisture profile on inversion accuracy

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 478-482

  Tabatabaeenejad, Alireza ^a   Moghaddam, Mahta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bistatic scattering coefficient; layered soil; moisture profile; noise analysis; rough surface scattering; simulated annealing; small perturbation method (SPM); soil moisture retrieval

Indexed keywords

BISTATIC SCATTERING; LAYERED SOILS; MOISTURE PROFILE; NOISE ANALYSIS; ROUGH-SURFACE SCATTERING; SMALL PERTURBATION METHOD; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; GEOLOGIC MODELS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; NASA; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PLASMA INTERACTIONS; RADAR; SOIL MOISTURE; SPACE SHUTTLES; SUPERSONIC AIRCRAFT;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

EID: 79955524792     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2010.2087741     Document Type: Article

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