Coupling SAR C-Band and Optical Data for Soil Moisture and Leaf Area Index Retrieval over Irrigated Grasslands

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1229-1243

  Baghdadi, Nicolas N ^a   El Hajj, Mohamad ^a   Zribi, Mehrez ^b   Fayad, Ibrahim ^a  

^a UMR TETIS   (France)

^b CESBIO   (France)

Author keywords

Biomass (BIO); canopy height; irrigated grassland; LANDSAT; leaf area index (LAI); RADARSAT 2; soil moisture; Vegetation water content (VWC)

Indexed keywords

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MOISTURE; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; RADAR IMAGING; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

INVERSION TECHNIQUES; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; POLARIMETRIC PARAMETERS; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; VEGETATION PARAMETERS; VEGETATION WATER CONTENTS (VWC);

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BIOMASS; CANOPY; COUPLING; GRASSLAND; LANDSAT; LEAF AREA INDEX; RADARSAT; SOIL MOISTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 84940675717     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2464698     Document Type: Article

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