Multi-frequency analysis of soil moisture vertical heterogeneity effect on radar backscatter

2014 1st International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Signal and Image Processing, ATSIP 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 379-384

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

^a CNES   (France)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL AGRONOMIQUE DE TUNISIE   (Tunisia)

^c UMR TETIS   (France)

Author keywords

AIEM; bare soil; multi frequency; soil moisture profile

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; FREQUENCY BANDS; IMAGE PROCESSING; RADAR; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ADVANCED INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; AIEM; BARE SOILS; GROUND-SURFACE ROUGHNESS; HETEROGENEITY EFFECTS; MULTI FREQUENCY; SOIL MOISTURE PROFILES; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE;

SOIL SURVEYS;

EID: 84903794788     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ATSIP.2014.6834640     Document Type: Conference Paper

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