Comparison of Cosmo-SkyMed and TerraSAR-X data for the retrieval of land hydrological parameters

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 5510-5513

  Paloscia, Simonetta ^a   Pampaloni, Paolo ^a   Santi, Emanuele ^a   Pettinato, Simone ^a   Brogioni, Marco ^a   Palchetti, Enrico ^a   Crepaz, Andrea ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b CVA Centro Valanghe Arabba   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cosmo SkyMed (CSK); Hydrology; TerraSAR X (TSX); X band backscattering

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL AREAS; BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; COSMO-SKYMED (CSK); HYDROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; POTENTIAL CHANGE; SAR DATA; SAR SENSORS; SURFACE PARAMETER; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TERRASAR-X;

BACKSCATTERING; GEOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; REMOTE SENSING;

SATELLITES;

EID: 84873157708     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352358     Document Type: Conference Paper

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