• DocumentCode
    3515465
  • Title

    On improvement of bare surface soil moisture estimation from L-band SAR measurements

  • Author

    Shi, Jiancheng ; Zyl, Jacob Van

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. for Comput. Earth Syst. Sci., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA
  • Volume
    4
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    6-10 Jul 1998
  • Firstpage
    1834
  • Abstract
    This paper demonstrates the authors´ continuous effort on the improvement of bare surface soil moisture and roughness estimation under the configuration of L-band polarimetric SAR measurement. Testing of the improved algorithm by using ground scatterometer data indicated the RMSE of 4% and 3.3 mm for estimated soil moisture and surface RMS height, respectively
  • Keywords
    geophysical signal processing; geophysical techniques; hydrological techniques; moisture measurement; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; soil; synthetic aperture radar; L-band; SAR; UHF; bare surface; estimation; geophysical measurement technique; hydrology; land surface; polarimetric SAR; radar polarimetry; radar remote sensing; roughness estimation; soil moisture; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; Backscatter; Dielectric constant; Moisture measurement; Polarization; Rough surfaces; Soil measurements; Soil moisture; Surface roughness; Surface soil; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings, 1998. IGARSS '98. 1998 IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    Seattle, WA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-4403-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IGARSS.1998.703667
  • Filename
    703667