A fusion approach to retrieve soil moisture with SAR and optical data

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

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 196-206

  Prakash, Rishi ^a   Singh, Dharmendra ^a   Pathak, Nagendra P ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

remote sensing; Soil moisture; synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MICROWAVE; BARE SOILS; COMPLEX PROCESSES; COPOLARIZATION; CROSS-POLARIZED; EMPIRICAL MODEL; GROUND TRUTH; KNOWLEDGE-BASED APPROACH; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; OPTICAL DATA; PHASED ARRAY TYPE L-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; SCATTERING CO-EFFICIENT; SIGNAL SCATTERING; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SURFACE SCATTERING; TEMPORAL BEHAVIOR; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION PARAMETERS; VOLUME SCATTERING; VOLUMETRIC SOIL MOISTURE CONTENTS; WATER AREAS;

ALGORITHMS; DATA FUSION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; POLARIZATION; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCATTERING; SOIL MOISTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ALGORITHM; BARE SOIL; MODIS; MOISTURE CONTENT; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 84857774391     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2011.2169236     Document Type: Article

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