Dense Temporal Series of C- and L-band SAR Data for Soil Moisture Retrieval Over Agricultural Crops

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

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 439-450

  Balenzano, Anna ^a   Mattia, Francesco ^a   Satalino, Giuseppe ^a   Davidson, Malcolm W J ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATION   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Sentinel 1; SMAP; soil moisture retrieval; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CROPS; AGRICULTURAL SITES; CHANGE DETECTION; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GERMANY; GROWING SEASON; INCIDENCE ANGLES; L-BAND SAR; MONITORING INFORMATION; MULTI-TEMPORAL; RADAR BACKSCATTER; RADAR SENSITIVITY; SAR DATA; SAR SIGNALS; SCATTERING MECHANISMS; SENTINEL-1; SMAP; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPORAL CHANGE; VEGETATION CANOPY; VOLUME SCATTERING; WINTER WHEAT;

BACKSCATTERING; CROPS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SERVICES; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; POLARIZATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ALGORITHM; BACKSCATTER; CROP; MOISTURE CONTENT; POLARIZATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

GERMANY;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 80052305769     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2010.2052916     Document Type: Article

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