Evaluation of polarimetric Radarsat-2 SAR data for development of soil moisture retrieval algorithms over a chronosequence of black spruce boreal forests

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 132, Issue , 2013, Pages 71-85

  Bourgeau Chavez, Laura L ^a   Leblon, Brigitte ^b   Charbonneau, Francois ^c   Buckley, Joseph R ^d  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^c NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

^d ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Black spruce; Boreal; Fuel moisture; Picea mariana; Polarimetric decomposition; Polarimetric discriminators; Polarimetric radar; SAR; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

BLACK SPRUCE; BOREAL; FUEL MOISTURE; PICEA MARIANA; POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION; POLARIMETRIC RADARS; SAR;

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; ALGORITHMS; BACKSCATTERING; FORESTRY; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ALGORITHM; BACKSCATTER; BIOMASS; BOREAL FOREST; CHRONOSEQUENCE; RADARSAT; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHMS; FORESTRY; MOISTURE; PICEA MARIANA; POLARIZATION; RADAR; ROUGHNESS; SOIL; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURVEYS;

PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 84873512943     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.01.006     Document Type: Article

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