Identification of soil freezing and thawing states using SAR polarimetry at C-band

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2008-2023

  Jagdhuber, Thomas ^a   Stockamp, Julia ^a   Hajnsek, Irena ^a,b   Ludwig, Ralf ^c  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

C band; Polarimetric eigen based decomposition; RADARSAT 2; SAR polarimetry; Soil freezin; Soil thawing

Indexed keywords

ELLIPSOMETRY; FROZEN SOILS; POLARIMETERS; SCATTERING; SNOW; SOIL MECHANICS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

C-BAND; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; POLARIMETRIC DATA; POLARIMETRIC DETECTIONS; POLARIMETRIC ENTROPY; RADARSAT-2; SAR POLARIMETRY; SOIL THAWING;

THAWING;

EID: 84896907123     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6032008     Document Type: Article

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