Error in Radar-Derived Soil Moisture due to Roughness Parameterization: An Analysis Based on Synthetical Surface Profiles

In the past decades, many studies on soil moisture retrieval from SAR demonstrated a poor correlation between the top layer soil moisture content and observed backscatter coefficients, which mainly has been attributed to difficulties involved in the parameterization of surface roughness. The present...

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Main Authors: Bernard De Baets, Jesús Álvarez-Mozos, Hilde Vernieuwe, Hans Lievens, Niko E.C. Verhoest
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2009-02-01
Series:Sensors
Subjects:
SAR
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/9/2/1067/