Evaluation of radar backscattering models IEM, Oh, and Dubois for SAR data in X-band over bare soils

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1160-1164

  Baghdadi, Nicolas ^a   Saba, Elie ^a   Aubert, Maelle ^a   Zribi, Mehrez ^b   Baup, Frederic ^b  

^a UMR TETIS   (France)

^b CESBIO   (France)

Author keywords

Dubois model; integral equation model (IEM); Oh model; TerraSAR X images

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; BARE SOILS; DUBOIS MODEL; EXPONENTIAL CORRELATION; GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; INTEGRAL EQUATION MODEL (IEM); INTEGRAL EQUATION MODELS; LARGE DATABASE; OH MODEL; RADAR BACKSCATTERING; RADAR SIGNALS; SAR DATA; SEMI-EMPIRICAL; SURFACE RADAR; TERRASAR-X;

BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SATELLITES; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

EID: 80255132701     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2011.2158982     Document Type: Article

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