Bayesian Combined Active/Passive (B-CAP) Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithm

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

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 5449-5460

  Barber, Matias ^a   Bruscantini, Cintia ^a   Grings, Francisco ^a   Karszenbaum, Haydee ^a  

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

Author keywords

Bayes procedures; inverse problems; moisture; radar applications; remote sensing; rough surfaces; soil measurements; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BARIUM ALLOYS; FORWARD SCATTERING; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; INVERSE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; LUMINANCE; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MOISTURE; PIXELS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL SURVEYS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPERATURE;

BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; BAYES PROCEDURE; INTEGRAL EQUATION MODELS; RADAR APPLICATIONS; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; ROUGH SURFACES; SOIL MEASUREMENT; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS;

SOIL MOISTURE;

ALGORITHM; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; INVERSE PROBLEM; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 85027056678     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2611491     Document Type: Article

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