Soil Moisture estimation under tropical forests using UHF radar polarimetry

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1718-1727

  Truong Loï, My Linh ^a   Saatchi, S ^a   Jaruwatanadilok, Sermsak ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass; P band; polarimetry; roughness; soil moisture (SM); synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; BACKSCATTERING; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOMASS; ELLIPSOMETRY; FORESTRY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; POLARIMETERS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TROPICS;

BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; DISTORTED BORN APPROXIMATION; NONLINEAR LEAST SQUARES METHODS; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERRORS; SCATTERING MECHANISMS; SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION; ULTRA-HIGH FREQUENCY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GENETIC ALGORITHM; NONLINEARITY; RADAR IMAGERY; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL MOISTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TROPICAL FOREST;

COSTA RICA; LA SELVA BIOLOGICAL STATION; LIMON;

EID: 85027927567     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2014.2346656     Document Type: Article

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