Potential for high resolution systematic global surface soil moisture retrieval via change detection using sentinel-1

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

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1303-1311

  Hornáček, Michael ^a   Wagner, Wolfgang ^a   Sabel, Daniel ^a   Truong, Hong Linh ^b   Snoeij, Paul ^c   Hahmann, Thomas ^d   Diedrich, Erhard ^d   Doubková, Marcela ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^d GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

C band; near real time; Sentinel 1; soil moisture; synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT; AUTOMATIC RETRIEVAL; C-BAND; C-BAND SAR DATA; CHANGE DETECTION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GLOBAL MONITORING; HIGH POTENTIAL; HIGH RESOLUTION; LAND-MASSES; NEAR-REAL TIME; RADIOMETRIC RESOLUTION; SENTINEL-1; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL; WIDE SWATH;

SIGNAL DETECTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

SOIL MOISTURE;

ALGORITHM; DATA ACQUISITION; DETECTION METHOD; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MONITORING SYSTEM; REAL TIME; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CANADA; EUROPE;

EID: 84864766445     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2012.2190136     Document Type: Article

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