Quantitative Retrieval of Soil Moisture Content and Surface Roughness From Multipolarized Radar Observations of Bare Soil Surfaces

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 fro... View More