Estimation of soil moisture from multi-polarized SAR data over wheat coverage areas

2012 1st International Conference on Agro-Geoinformatics, Agro-Geoinformatics 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 292-296

  Yang, Guijun ^a   Shi, Yuechan ^a   Zhao, Chunjiang ^a   Wang, Jihua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

multi polarized SAR; soil moisture; wheat water content

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE VALUES; AGRICULTURAL FIELDS; AVERAGE RELATIVE ERROR; BACKSCATTERING MODELS; CO-POLARIZED; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; COVERAGE AREA; CROP HEIGHT; CROSS POLARIZATIONS; INVERSION ALGORITHM; LEAF AREA INDEX; MULTI-POLARIZED SAR; RADAR DATA; RADARSAT-2; SAR DATA; SEMI-EMPIRICAL; WHEAT FIELDS;

CROPS; ESTIMATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATER CONTENT;

SOIL SURVEYS;

EID: 84869392954     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/Agro-Geoinformatics.2012.6311656     Document Type: Conference Paper

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