COSMO SkyMed AO projects -soil moisture detection for vegetation fields based on a modified water-cloud model using COSMO-SkyMed SAR data

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1204-1207

  Kweon, Soon Koo ^a   Hwang, Ji Hwan ^a   Oh, Yisok ^a  

^a Hong Ik University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

backscattering coefficients; Inversion algorithm; soil moisture; vegetation canopy; water cloud model

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; COSMO SKYMED; GROUND TRUTH DATA; INVERSION ALGORITHM; MOISTURE DETECTION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SAR DATA; SAR IMAGES; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; VEGETATION CANOPY; WATER MASS;

ALGORITHMS; GEOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

SOIL SURVEYS;

EID: 84873114488     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350825     Document Type: Conference Paper

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