A comparison of two models to predict soil moisture from remote sensing data of RADARSAT II

Arabian Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 4851-4860

  Al Bakri, Jawad ^a   Suleiman, Ayman ^a   Berg, Aaron ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

GIS; Jordan; Remote sensing; SAR; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADARSAT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

YARMOUK BASIN;

EID: 84919946871     PISSN: 18667511     EISSN: 18667538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12517-013-1115-y     Document Type: Article

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