Airborne GNSS-R polarimetric measurements for soil moisture and above-ground biomass estimation

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1522-1532

  Egido, Alejandro ^a   Paloscia, Simonetta ^b   Motte, Erwan ^a   Guerriero, Leila ^c   Pierdicca, Nazzareno ^d   Caparrini, Marco ^a   Santi, Emanuele ^b   Fontanelli, Giacomo ^b   Floury, Nicola ^e  

^a Edifici de l'Observatori Fabra   (Spain)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^e EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Above ground biomass (AGB); Global Navigation Satellite System reflectometry (GNSS R); soil moisture

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; POLARIMETERS; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND;

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; AGRICULTURAL SECTOR; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; POLARIMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; REFLECTOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING SYSTEM; ROUGHNESS STANDARDS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; GNSS; MOISTURE; MOISTURE CONTENT; REFLECTIVITY; REFLECTOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 84903189883     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2322854     Document Type: Article

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