Polarimetric RADARSAT-2 imagery for soil moisture retrieval in alpine areas

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 535-547

  Pasolli, L ^a,b   Notarnicola, C ^b   Bruzzone, L ^a   Bertoldi, G ^b   Della Chiesa, S ^b   Niedrist, G ^b   Tappeiner, U ^c   Zebisch, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE AREAS; ALPINE MEADOW; FEATURE EXTRACTION METHODS; MULTIOBJECTIVE MODELS; PHASE PROCESSING; POLARIMETRIC CAPABILITIES; POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION; POLARIMETRIC FEATURES; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADAR SIGNALS; RADARSAT-2; RADARSAT-2 IMAGES; SOIL MOISTURE CONTENT MAPS; SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION (SVR); VEGETATION EFFECTS;

ESTIMATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; POLARIMETERS;

SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 84870015974     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m11-065     Document Type: Article

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