Quantitative Retrieval of Soil Moisture Content and Surface Roughness From Multipolarized Radar Observations of Bare Soil Surfaces
- 15 March 2004
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
- Vol. 42 (3), 596-601
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tgrs.2003.821065
Abstract
A semiempirical polarimetric backscattering model for bare soil surfaces is inverted directly to retrieve both the volumetric soil moisture content M/sub v/ and the rms surface height s from multipolarized radar observations. The rms surface height s and the moisture content M/sub v/ can be read from inversion diagrams using the measurements of the cross-polarized backscattering coefficient /spl sigma//sub vh//sup 0/ and the copolarized ratio p(=/spl sigma//sub hh//sup 0///spl sigma//sub vv//sup 0/). Otherwise, the surface parameters can be estimated simply by solving two equations (/spl sigma//sub vh//sup 0/ and p) in two unknowns (M/sub v/ and s). The inversion technique has been applied to the polarimetric backscattering coefficients measured by ground-based polarimetric scatterometers and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory airborne synthetic aperture radar. A good agreement was observed between the values of surface parameters (the rms height s, roughness parameter ks, and the volumetric soil moisture content M/sub v/) estimated by the inversion technique and those measured in situ.Keywords
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