Estimating surface-soil moisture for retrieving maize leaf-area index from SAR data

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 136-150

  Bériaux, Emilie ^a   Lambot, Sébastien ^a,b   Defourny, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; CROPS; CULTIVATION; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; HYDROLOGY; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PERMITTIVITY; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CROP YIELD FORECASTING; DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITIES; EARTH OBSERVATION DATA; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

SOIL SURVEYS;

EID: 84870021200     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m11-021     Document Type: Article

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