A method for soil moisture retrieval in vegetated areas using multi-frequency data considering different kinds of interaction in different frequencies

Proceedings of the European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, EUSAR

Volumn Proceedings of the European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, EUSAR, Issue , 2014, Pages 755-758

  Mahdavi, Sahel ^a   Maghsoudi, Yasser ^a   Dehnavi, Sahar ^a  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; MOISTURE; RADAR; SOILS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; MODEL INVERSION; MULTI FREQUENCY; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; VEGETATION INDEX;

SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 84992070770     PISSN: 21974403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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