Soil moisture retrieval using L-band radar observations

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 3492-3506

  Narvekar, Parag S ^a   Entekhabi, Dara ^a   Kim, Seung Bum ^b   Njoku, Eni G ^b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Radar roughness (RR); radar soil moisture; radar vegetation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FORWARD SCATTERING; MOISTURE; RADAR; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VEGETATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; LAND SURFACE CONDITIONS; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SOIL SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE CONDITIONS; SURFACE-SOIL-MOISTURE ESTIMATION; VEGETATION SCATTERING;

SOILS;

ALGORITHM; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE; ESTIMATION METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; RADAR IMAGERY; ROUGHNESS; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION INDEX; WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 85027945810     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2014.2377714     Document Type: Article

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