Assessment of soil moisture effects on L-band radar interferometry

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 164, Issue , 2015, Pages 77-89

  Zwieback, Simon ^a   Hensley, Scott ^b   Hajnsek, Irena ^a,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Deformation; Differential interferometry; DInSAR; Displacement; Microwave scattering; Radar interferometry; Soil moisture; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

CROPS; DEFORMATION; INTERFEROMETRY; MOISTURE; POLARIZATION; RADAR; SOILS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

D-INSAR; DIFFERENTIAL INTERFEROMETRY; DISPLACEMENT; MICROWAVE SCATTERING; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY;

SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 84928690446     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.04.012     Document Type: Article

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