Soil moisture estimation under low vegetation cover using a multi-angular polarimetric decomposition

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2201-2215

  Jagdhuber, Thomas ^a   Hajnsek, Irena ^a,b   Bronstert, Axel ^c   Papathanassiou, Konstantinos Panagiotis ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Multi angular model based decomposition; polarimetric SAR; soil moisture

Indexed keywords

GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTERS; MODEL-BASED DECOMPOSITION; POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION; POLARIMETRIC SAR; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION; VOLUMETRIC SOIL MOISTURES;

AGRICULTURE; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; SOIL MOISTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

POLARIMETERS;

BACKSCATTER; ERROR ANALYSIS; FIELD; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; MODEL VALIDATION; SENSOR; SOIL MOISTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION COVER;

GERMANY;

EID: 84875684624     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2209433     Document Type: Article

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