Soil-moisture estimation from TerraSAR-X data using neural networks

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 937-952

  Kseneman, Matej ^a   Gleich, Dušan ^a   Potočnik, Božidar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Feed forward back propagation neural network; Model based de speckling; Self organizing maps; Soil moisture estimation; TerraSAR X

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION OF MODELS; DE-SPECKLING; EARLY PREDICTION; FEEDFORWARD BACKPROPAGATION; INCIDENCE ANGLES; MODEL ACCURACY; MODEL-BASED OPC; NATURAL DISASTERS; PARAMETER RETRIEVAL; PRE-PROCESSING STEP; PRODUCT IMAGES; PUBLIC SAFETY; SAR IMAGES; SELF-ORGANIZING NEURAL NETWORK; SEMIEMPIRICAL MODELS; SLOVENIA; SPECKLE NOISE; TERRASAR-X;

CONFORMAL MAPPING; GEOLOGIC MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SATELLITES; SOIL MOISTURE; SPECKLE;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84865349929     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: 14321769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00138-011-0375-3     Document Type: Article

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