Polarimetric two-scale model for soil moisture retrieval via dual-pol HH-VV SAR data

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

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1163-1171

  Iodice, Antonio ^a   Natale, Antonio ^b   Riccio, Daniele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Polarimetry; retrieval of natural surface parameters; rough surfaces; SAR

Indexed keywords

BARE SOILS; NATURAL SURFACE; ROUGH SURFACES; SAR; SAR DATA; SAR IMAGES; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; TWO-SCALE MODEL;

SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

POLARIMETERS;

ALGORITHM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MODELING; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84880060954     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2238893     Document Type: Article

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