A Method for Soil Moisture Retrieval in Vegetated Areas Using Multi-Frequency Data Considering Different kinds of Interaction in Different Frequencies

Konferenz: EUSAR 2014 - 10th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
03.06.2014 - 05.06.2014 in Berlin, Germany

Tagungsband: EUSAR 2014

Seiten: 4Sprache: EnglischTyp: PDF

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Autoren:
Mahdavi, Sahel; Maghsoudi, Yasser; Dehnavi, Sahar (K.N.Toosi University, Faculty of Geomatics and Geodesy, Iran)

Inhalt:
A method was presented for soil moisture retrieval which is based on considering different kinds of interaction of radar electromagnetic waves in different frequencies. A vegetation index was defined and a relationship was developed between the index and C-HH backscatter. Then, the effect of vegetation from L-band backscatter in HH and VV polarizations was removed by using the index and soil moisture was retrieved by Dubois model inversion. Average of error absolute values was 0.0431.