A SAR interferometric model for soil moisture

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 418-425

  De Zan, Francesco ^a   Parizzi, Alessandro ^a   Prats Iraola, Pau ^a   López Dekker, Paco ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coherence; Soil moisture; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROGRAMS; INTERFEROMETRIC COHERENCE; INTERFEROMETRIC MODELS; INVERSION RESULTS; MODEL-BASED OPC; PHASE CONSISTENCIES; SCATTERING MODEL; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY;

COHERENT LIGHT; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; INTERFEROMETRY; SOIL MOISTURE;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BORN APPROXIMATION; DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; GEOMETRY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SCATTERING; SOIL MOISTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84890441598     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2241069     Document Type: Article

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