Spatial and temporal soil moisture estimation from RADARSAT-2 imagery over Flevoland, The Netherlands

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 456-457, Issue , 2012, Pages 44-56

  Lievens, Hans ^a   Verhoest, Niko E C ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Change detection; IEM; SAR; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ACROSS TIME; AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENTS; AGRICULTURAL FIELDS; AGRICULTURAL SITES; BARE SOILS; CHANGE DETECTION; CROSS VALIDATION; DRY AND WET; FIELD CAMPAIGN; GROUND MEASUREMENTS; GROWING SEASON; HYDROLOGIC PROCESS; IEM; INTEGRAL EQUATION MODELS; LABOR INTENSIVE; LEAVE-ONE-OUT; NETHERLANDS; PHYSICALLY BASED MODELING; RADARSAT-2; REFERENCE SOIL; RETRIEVAL ACCURACY; SAR; SOIL MOISTURE DYNAMICS; SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION; SOIL MOISTURE MEASUREMENT; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS PARAMETERS;

AGRICULTURE; BACKSCATTERING; CATCHMENTS; DYNAMICS; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL DETECTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

SOIL MOISTURE;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENT; BACKSCATTER; ESTIMATION METHOD; POLARIZATION; RADARSAT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

FLEVOLAND; NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84864346886     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.06.013     Document Type: Article

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