Estimation of soil parameters over bare agriculture areas from C-band polarimetric SAR data using neural networks

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1607-1621

  Baghdadi, N ^a   Cresson, R ^a   El Hajj, M ^a   Ludwig, R ^b   La Jeunesse, I ^c  

^a UMR TETIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SOILS; BARE SOILS; C-BAND SAR DATA; DATA SETS; EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; INTEGRAL EQUATION MODELS; INVERSION TECHNIQUES; MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON; POLARIMETRIC PARAMETERS; POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA; RADARSAT-2 IMAGES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; SOIL PARAMETERS; SOIL ROUGHNESS; SOIL SURFACE PARAMETERS; SURFACE HEIGHT; WET SOIL;

AGRICULTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; INVERSION LAYERS; NEURAL NETWORKS; POLARIMETERS; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BARE SOIL; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURFACE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84861890165     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-16-1607-2012     Document Type: Article

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