Monitoring soil moisture in an agricultural test site using SAR data: Design and test of a pre-operational procedure

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1199-1210

  Pierdicca, Nazzareno ^a   Pulvirenti, Luca ^a   Bignami, Christian ^b   Ticconi, Francesca ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Operational procedure; SAR; soil moisture

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING MODELS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI PROBABILITIES; OPERATIONAL PROCEDURES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ESTIMATION ERRORS; SAR; SOIL MOISTURE MAPPING; WEATHER PREDICTION MODEL;

AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHMS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; SOIL MOISTURE; STATISTICAL TESTS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ITALY;

EID: 84880056593     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2012.2237162     Document Type: Article

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