Probabilistic fusion of K u - And C-band scatterometer data for determining the freeze/thaw state

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 7 PART1, 2012, Pages 2583-2594

  Zwieback, Simon ^a   Bartsch, Annett ^a   Melzer, Thomas ^a   Wagner, Wolfgang ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Freeze thaw (f t); radar remote sensing; sensor fusion; time series analysis

Indexed keywords

FREEZE/THAW; IN-SITU TEMPERATURE; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; RADAR BANDS; RADAR REMOTE SENSING; SCATTEROMETER DATA; SENSOR FUSION; SENSOR FUSION ALGORITHMS; SIBERIA; TRAINING DATA;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SENSORS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TESTING; THAWING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

ALGORITHM; BARE SOIL; DATA SET; FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; RADAR; SCATTEROMETER; SENSOR; SOIL MOISTURE; THAWING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CHINA; SIBERIA;

EID: 84862985900     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2169076     Document Type: Article

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