Semi-empirical calibration of the integral equation model for co-polarized L-band backscattering

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 13626-13640

  Baghdadi, Nicolas ^a   Zribi, Mehrez ^b   Paloscia, Simonetta ^c   Verhoest, Niko E C ^d   Lievens, Hans ^d   Baup, Frederic ^b   Mattia, Francesco ^e  

^a UMR TETIS   (France)

^b CESBIO   (France)

^c IFAC CNR   (Italy)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^e CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bare soil; Integral equation model; L band; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; BACKSCATTERING; CALIBRATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; BARE SOILS; CORRELATION LENGTHS; EXPONENTIAL AUTOCORRELATION; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; INTEGRAL EQUATION MODELS; L-BAND; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS;

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 84945897198     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs71013626     Document Type: Article

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