Title :
A quantitative comparison of soil moisture inversion algorithms
Author :
Van Zyl, Jakob J. ; Kim, Yunjin
Author_Institution :
Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
Abstract :
This paper compares the performance of four bare surface radar soil moisture inversion algorithms in the presence of measurement errors. The particular errors considered include calibration errors, system thermal noise, local topography and vegetation cover
Keywords :
hydrological techniques; inverse problems; measurement errors; moisture; radar theory; remote sensing by radar; soil; bare surface radar soil moisture inversion algorithms; calibration errors; local topography; measurement errors; soil moisture inversion algorithms; system thermal noise; vegetation cover; Calibration; Dielectric constant; Measurement errors; Radar measurements; Rough surfaces; Soil moisture; Surface roughness; Surface topography; Surface waves; Vegetation mapping;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7031-7
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2001.976050
