Monitoring volumetric surface soil moisture content at the La Grande basin boreal wetland by radar multi polarization data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 4919-4941

  Jacome, Andres ^a   Bernier, Monique ^a   Chokmani, Karem ^a   Gauthier, Yves ^a   Poulin, Jimmy ^a   De Sève, Danielle ^b  

^a CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

^b HYDRO QUÉBEC   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal wetland; Cross polarization; RADARSAT 2; Remote sensing; SAR; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

BOREAL WETLANDS; CROSS POLARIZATIONS; HYDROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; INFLUENCE OF VEGETATIONS; RADARSAT-2; REMOTE SENSING MONITORING; SAR; SURFACE-SOIL-MOISTURE ESTIMATION;

ESTIMATION; FLOODS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; POLARIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; STATISTICS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

EID: 84887561247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5104919     Document Type: Article

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