Sensitivity of main polarimetric parameters of multifrequency polarimetric SAR data to soil moisture and surface roughness over bare agricultural soils

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 731-735

  Baghdadi, Nicolas ^a   Dubois Fernandez, Pascale ^b   Dupuis, Xavier ^b   Zribi, Mehrez ^c  

^a UMR TETIS   (France)

^b Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales   (France)

^c CESBIO   (France)

Author keywords

Bare agricultural soils; multifrequency polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data; soil moisture; surface roughness

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL AREAS; AGRICULTURAL SOILS; LOW CORRELATION; MULTI FREQUENCY; MULTI-SPECTRAL; POLARIMETRIC DATA; POLARIMETRIC PARAMETERS; POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATA; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; RADARSAT-2; SOIL PARAMETERS; SOIL SURFACE PARAMETERS; SOIL SURFACES; SPACEBORNE DATA; STUDY SITES; ULTRA-HIGH FREQUENCY;

AGRICULTURE; POLARIMETERS; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84870910281     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2012.2220333     Document Type: Article

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