An Iterative Generalized Hybrid Decomposition for Soil Moisture Retrieval under Vegetation Cover Using Fully Polarimetric SAR

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

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 3911-3922

  Jagdhuber, Thomas ^a   Hajnsek, Irena ^a,b   Papathanassiou, Konstantinos P ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Agriculture; hybrid decomposition; SAR polarimetry; soil moisture estimation under vegetation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MOISTURE; POLARIMETERS; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS; SOILS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

FREQUENCY DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; GRAVIMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SAR POLARIMETRY; SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY;

SOIL MOISTURE;

AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHM; PHENOLOGY; SOIL MOISTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 85028228915     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2371468     Document Type: Article

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