Estimation of surface soil moisture and roughness from multi-angular ASAR imagery in theWatershed Allied Telemetry Experimental Research (WATER)

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1415-1426

  Wang, S G ^a,b   Li, X ^a   Han, X J ^a   Jin, R ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; BACKSCATTERING MODELS; CORRELATION LENGTHS; EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH; HEIHE RIVER BASIN; INCIDENCE ANGLES; INTEGRATED EQUATIONS; RADAR BACKSCATTERING; RADAR REMOTE SENSING; REGIONAL SCALE; ROUGHNESS PARAMETERS; SEMI-EMPIRICAL; SOIL ROUGHNESS; SOIL WATER CONTENT; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATISTICAL RELATIONSHIP; SURFACE HEIGHT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS PARAMETERS; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION COVER;

BACKSCATTERING; ESTIMATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; TELEMETERING EQUIPMENT;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

BACKSCATTER; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SLOPE; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION COVER; WATERSHED;

CHINA; GANSU; HEIHE BASIN;

EID: 81255191781     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-15-1415-2011     Document Type: Article

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