Retrieving surface roughness and soil moisture from SAR data using neural networks.

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Jan 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002esasp.475..315b&link_type=abstract

In: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Retrieval of Bio- and Geophysical Parameters from SAR Data for Land Appl

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An inversion technique based on neural networks has been implemented to estimate surface roughness and soil moisture over bare fields using ERS and RADARSAT data. The neural networks were trained with a simulated data set generated from the Integral Equation Model. Later the networks were applied to an experimental data set spanning a wide range of surface roughness and soil moisture, with backscattering coefficients for three radar configurations (VV-23°, HH-39°, HH-47°). Approaches based on two and three radar image configurations were examined and tested. Although the three-image configuration produces slightly more accurate results, a two-image configuration gives results of comparable accuracy when a favourable combination of incidence angles is adopted. Soil moisture and surface roughness were estimated respectively at about 7.6% and 0.47 cm using the root mean square error.

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