A simulation study of compact polarimetry for radar retrieval of soil moisture

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 5966-5973

  Ouellette, Jeffrey D ^a   Johnson, Joel T ^a   Kim, Seungbum ^b   Van Zyl, Jakob J ^b   Moghaddam, Mahta ^c   Spencer, Michael W ^b   Tsang, Leung ^d   Entekhabi, Dara ^e  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compact polarimetry; data cube; retrieval algorithm; soil moisture; time series

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELLIPSOMETRY; POLARIMETERS; RADAR SYSTEMS; SOIL MOISTURE; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION;

COMPACT POLARIMETRIES; DATA CUBE; RADAR REMOTE SENSING; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; RETRIEVAL PROCESS; SIMULATION STUDIES; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; TIME-SERIES DATA;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ALGORITHM; COMPACTION; DATA ACQUISITION; RADAR IMAGERY; SIMULATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURFACE; TIME SERIES;

EID: 84900818556     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2294133     Document Type: Article

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