A Global Sensitivity Analysis of Soil Parameters Associated With Backscattering Using the Advanced Integral Equation Model

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 5613-5623

  Ma, Chunfeng ^a,b   Li, Xin ^a,c   Wang, Shuguo ^a,d  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences ^*  (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CAS CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN TIBETAN PLATEAU EARTH SCIENCES   (China)

^d JIANGSU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Active microwave remote sensing; extended Fourier amplitude sensitivity test (EFAST); sensitivity analysis (SA); soil moisture inversion

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MOISTURE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS;

ACTIVE MICROWAVE; ADVANCED INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; EXTENDED FOURIER AMPLITUDE SENSITIVITY TEST (EFAST); GLOBAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SURFACE CORRELATION FUNCTIONS;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; BACKSCATTER; ESTIMATION METHOD; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REMOTE SENSING; ROUGHNESS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 85027944757     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2015.2426194     Document Type: Article

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