Statistical properties of soil moisture images derived from Radarsat-1 SAR data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 5443-5460

  Merzouki, A ^a   Bannari, A ^b   Teillet, P M ^c   King, D J ^d  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^d CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURVEYS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; GROUND MEASUREMENTS; INTEGRAL EQUATION MODELS; SOIL MOISTURE MAPS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STATISTICAL MOMENTS; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS EFFECTS;

RADAR IMAGING;

CALIBRATION; DATA ACQUISITION; GEOSTATISTICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADARSAT; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATERSHED;

CANADA; MANITOBA; ROSEAU RIVER [MANITOBA];

EID: 80053113746     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2010.502154     Document Type: Article

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