A new empirical model for radar scattering from bare soil surfaces

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2016, Pages

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

^a UMR TETIS   (France)

^b CESBIO   (France)

^c IFAC CNR   (Italy)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dubois model; New backscattering model; SAR images; Soil parameters

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; POLARIZATION; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SOILS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; BACKSCATTERING MODELS; GEOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; RADAR BACKSCATTERING; SAR IMAGES; SOIL PARAMETERS; SOIL SURFACE PARAMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 85019770581     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8110920     Document Type: Article

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