Soil moisture mapping over the central part of the Tibetan Plateau using a series of ASAR WS images

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 120, Issue , 2012, Pages 175-187

  van der Velde, Rogier ^a   Su, Zhongbo ^a   van Oevelen, Peter ^b   Wen, Jun ^c   Ma, Yaoming ^d   Salama, Mhd Suhyb ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b International GEWEX Project Office   (United States)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Angular o response; ASAR WS; Soil moisture; The Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; ASAR WS; BIO-PHYSICAL VARIABLES; DATA SETS; GLOBAL MONITORING; IEM MODEL; IMAGING MODES; INCIDENCE ANGLES; INTEGRAL EQUATION METHODS; ROUGHNESS PARAMETERS; SCATTERING MODEL; SENSING SYSTEMS; SOIL MOISTURE MAPPING; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SPATIAL COVERAGE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STUDY AREAS; TIBETAN PLATEAU; WIDE SWATH; WINTER SEASONS;

ALGORITHMS; SENSORS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

SOIL MOISTURE;

ALGORITHM; BACKSCATTER; DATA SET; IMAGING METHOD; MAPPING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84862820510     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.05.029     Document Type: Article

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