Dominant backscattering mechanisms at L-band during dynamic soil moisture conditions for sandy soils

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 178, Issue , 2016, Pages 104-112

  Liu, Pang Wei ^a   Judge, Jasmeet ^a   DeRoo, Roger D ^b   England, Anthony W ^b,c   Bongiovanni, Tara ^a   Luke, Adam ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Active microwave remote sensing; JAXA ALOS2; NASA NISAR; Radar; Soil moisture; Surface scattering; Volume scattering

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; MOISTURE; NASA; PLASMA INTERACTIONS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SAND; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ACTIVE MICROWAVE; BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; JAXA-ALOS2; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; POWER LAW RELATIONSHIP; SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION; VOLUME SCATTERING;

SURFACE SCATTERING;

ALGORITHM; ALOS; BACKSCATTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLARIZATION; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SANDY SOIL; SCATTERING; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 84960386893     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.02.062     Document Type: Article

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