A prototype ann based algorithm for the soil moisture retrieval from l- Band in view of the incoming SMAP mission

13th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment, MicroRad 2014 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 5-9

  Santi, E ^a   Paloscia, S ^a   Pettinato, S ^a   Fontanelli, G ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

backscattering coefficient; brightness temperature; electromagnetic models; microwave; SMAP; soil moisture

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVES; NEURAL NETWORKS; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE;

BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELS; FORWARD MODELS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER THEORY; SMAP; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84906775974     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MicroRad.2014.6878897     Document Type: Conference Paper

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