Influence of radar frequency on the relationship between bare surface soil moisture vertical profile and radar backscatter

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 848-852

  Zribi, M ^a   Gorrab, A ^a,b   Baghdadi, N ^c   Lili Chabaane, Z ^b   Mougenot, B ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL AGRONOMIQUE DE TUNISIE   (Tunisia)

^c UMR TETIS   (France)

Author keywords

Advanced integral equation model (AIEM); bare soil; soil moisture profile; synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; BACKSCATTER MODEL; BACKSCATTERED SIGNAL; BARE SOILS; GROUND-SURFACE ROUGHNESS; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; SOIL MOISTURE PROFILES; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE;

BACKSCATTERING; FREQUENCY BANDS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

SOIL SURVEYS;

EID: 84890567353     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2013.2279893     Document Type: Article

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