Decomposing Dual Scale Soil Surface Roughness for Microwave Remote Sensing Applications

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2016-2032

  Marzahn, Philip ^a   Seidel, Moritz ^a   Ludwig, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Detrending; Photogrammetry; RMS height; SAR; Soil surface roughness; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL FIELDS; AUTOCORRELATION LENGTH; DETRENDING; DIFFERENT SCALE; DUAL SCALE; GEOSTATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; RMS HEIGHT; ROUGHNESS INDEX; ROUGHNESS PATTERNS; SAR; SCALE PATTERN; SMALL SCALE; SOIL SURFACES; WHEEL TRACK;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; AUTOCORRELATION; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SOILS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 84865006450     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4072016     Document Type: Article

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