Exploring the Validity Range of the Polarimetric Two-scale Two- Component Model for Soil Moisture Retrieval by Using Agrisar Data
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چکیده
The recently proposed polarimetric two-scale twocomponent model (PTSTCM) in principle allows us obtaining a reasonable estimation of the soil moisture even in moderately vegetated areas, where the volumetric scattering contribution is non-negligible, provided that the surface component is dominant and the double-bounce component is negligible. Here we test the PTSTCM validity range by applying it to polarimetric SAR data acquired on areas for which, at the same times of SAR acquisitions, ground measurements of soil moisture were performed. In particular, we employ the AGRISAR’06 database, which includes data from several fields covering a period that spans all the phases of vegetation growth.
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