Modified Dubois Model for Estimating Soil Moisture with Dual Polarized SAR Data

Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 865-872

  Srinivasa Rao, S ^a   Dinesh kumar, S ^a,g   Das, S N ^b   Nagaraju, M S S ^c   Venugopal, M V ^d   Rajankar, Prashant ^e   Laghate, Pankaj ^f   Reddy, M Sivaprasad ^b   Joshi, A K ^b   Sharma, J R ^a  

^a National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC)   (India)

^b Regional Remote Sensing Service Centre   (India)

^c ICAR NATIONAL BUREAU OF SOIL SURVEY AND LAND USE PLANNING   (India)

^d CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR COTTON RESEARCH   (India)

^e Maharashtra Remote Sensing Application Agency (MRSAC)   (India)

^f Natl Bur Soil Surv/Land Use Plan   (India)

^g Oceanography Division   (India)

Author keywords

Dual polarization; Dubois model; Radarsat 2; Roughness; SAR; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CULTIVATION; PENETRATION; POLARIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; ROUGHNESS; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

EID: 84887990819     PISSN: 0255660X     EISSN: 09743006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12524-013-0274-3     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Baghdadi, N., & Zribi, M. (2006). Evaluation of radar backscatter models IEM, OH and Dubois using experimental observations. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 27(18), 3831-3852.
2. Baghdadi, N., Saba, E., Aubert, M., Zribi, M., & Baup, F. (2011). Evaluation of radar backscattering models IEM, Oh, and Dubois for SAR data in X-band over bare soils. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 8(6), 1160-1164.
3. Beaudoin, A., Le Toan, T., Goze, S., Nezry, E., Lopes, A., Mougin, E., & Shin, R. T. (1994). Retrieval of forest biomass from SAR data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 15(14), 2777-2796.
4. Borgeaud, M., Attema, E., Salgado-gispert, G., Bellini, A. & Noll, J., (1995). Analysis of bare soil surface roughness parameter with ERS-1 SAR data. Symposium on the Extraction of Bio and Geophysical Parameters from SAR Data for Land Applications (pp. 307-316). Toulouse.
5. Brown, R. J., Pokier, S., & Manore, M. J., (1988). Correlations between X, C and L-band imagery within an agricultural environment. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS '88) (pp. 1279-1280). Scotland, UK: Edinburgh.
6. Chen, K. S., Yen, S. K., & Huang, W. P. (1995). A simple model for retrieving bare soil moisture from radar-scattering coefficients. Remote Sensing of Environment, 54(2), 121-126.
7. Dubois, P. C., van Zyl, J., & Engman, T. (1995). Measuring soil moisture with imaging radars. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 33(4), 915-926.
8. Ji, J., van der Keur, P., Thomsen, A., & Skriver, H., (1996). Soil moisture retrieval using the Danish L- & C-band polarimetric SAR. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote sensing symposium (IGARSS'96) (vol. 2, pp. 1300-1302) Lincoln, NB, USA.
9. Kasischke, E. S., Tanase, M. A., Bourgeau-Chavez, L. L., & Borr, M. (2011). Soil moisture limitations on monitoring boreal forest regrowth using spaceborne L-band SAR data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 115(1), 227-232.
10. Merzouki, A., McNairn, H., & Pacheco, A. (2010). Evaluation of the Dubois, Oh, and IEM radar backscatter models over agricultural fields using C-band RADARSAT-2 SAR image data. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, 36(S2), 274-286.
11. Neusch, T., & Sties, M. (1999). Application of the Dubois-model using experimental synthetic aperture radar data for the determination of soil moisture and surface roughness. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 54(4), 273-278.
12. Oh, Y., Sarabandi, K., & Ulaby, F. T. (1992). An empirical model and an inversion technique for radar scattering from bare soil surfaces. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 30(2), 370-381.
13. Sahebi, M. R., & Angles, J. (2010). An inversion method based on multi-angular approaches for estimating bare soil surface parameters from RADARSAT-1. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 14(11), 2355-2366.
14. Sikdar, M., & Cumming, I. (2004, September). A modified empirical model for soil moisture estimation in vegetated areas using SAR data. In Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004. IGARSS'04. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International (vol. 2, pp. 803-806).
15. Song, K., Zhou, X., & Fan, Y. (2010). Retrieval of soil moisture content from microwave backscattering using a modified IEM model. Progress In Electromagnetics Research B, 26, 383-399.
16. Srivastava, H. S., Patel, P., & Navalgund, R. R. (2006). How far SAR has fulfilled its expectation for soil moisture retrieval. In Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing Symposium (pp. 641001-641001). International Society for Optics and Photonics.
17. Srivastava, H. S., Patel, P., Navalgund, R. R., & Sharma, Y. (2008). Retrieval of surface roughness using multi-polarized envisat-1 ASAR data. Geocarto International, 23(1), 67-77.
18. Topp, G. C., Davis, J. L., & Annan, A. P. (1980). Electromagnetic determination of soil water content: measurements in coaxial transmission lines. Water Resources Research, 16(3), 574-582.
19. Ulaby, F. T., Batlivala, P. P., & Dobson, M. C. (1978). Microwave backscatter dependence on surface roughness, soil moisture, and soil texture: part I-bare soil. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience Electronics, 16(4), 286-295.
20. Zribi, M., Baghdadi, N., Holah, N., & Fafin, O. (2005). New methodology for soil surface moisture estimation and its application to ENVISAT-ASAR multi-incidence data inversion. Remote Sensing of Environment, 96(3), 485-496.