L-Band Radar Soil Moisture Retrieval Without Ancillary Information

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

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 5526-5540

  Bruscantini, Cintia A ^a   Konings, Alexandra G ^b   Narvekar, Parag S ^b   McColl, Kaighin A ^b   Entekhabi, Dara ^b   Grings, Francisco M ^a   Karszenbaum, Haydee ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ASTRONOMÍA Y FÍSICA DEL ESPACIO   (Argentina)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquarius SAC D; microwave remote sensing; radar; radar roughness; radar vegetation index (RVI); scatterometer; soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); ITERATIVE METHODS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MOISTURE; NASA; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RADIOMETERS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

NONLINEAR RELATIONS; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SCATTEROMETER MEASUREMENTS; SOIL MOISTURE MAPPING; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SURFACE CLASSIFICATION; VEGETATION CONDITION; VOLUMETRIC SOIL MOISTURES;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ALGORITHM; AQUARIUS; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 84947982795     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2496326     Document Type: Article

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