Soil moisture estimation based on integration of optical and SAR images

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 112-121

  Hosseini, Mehdi ^a   Saradjian, M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; INTEGRATION; LINEAR REGRESSION; MOISTURE; RADAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; RADAR BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENT; SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS EFFECTS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS PARAMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES; VEGETATION WATER CONTENTS (VWC);

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 84869986589     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m11-015     Document Type: Article

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