Retrieval of both soil moisture and texture using TerraSAR-X images

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 10098-10116

  Gorrab, Azza ^a,b   Zribi, Mehrez ^a   Baghdadi, Nicolas ^c   Mougenot, Bernard ^a   Fanise, Pascal ^a   Chabaane, Zohra Lili ^b  

^a CNES   (France)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL AGRONOMIQUE DE TUNISIE   (Tunisia)

^c UMR TETIS   (France)

Author keywords

Clay content soil moisture; Radar; Soil moisture; Soil roughness; TerraSAR X; Texture

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE TEXTURE; MOISTURE; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; SATELLITES; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEXTURES;

CLAY CONTENT; EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIPS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; NETWORK MEASUREMENT; SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION; SOIL ROUGHNESS; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE; TERRASAR-X;

SOIL SURVEYS;

EID: 84939426192     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70810098     Document Type: Article

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