In this paper, the potential of using polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) acquisitions for the
estimation of volumetric soil moisture under agricultural vegetation is investigated. Soil-moisture …

Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission of NASA was launched in January 2015. Currently,
SMAP has an L-band radiometer and a defunct L-band radar with a rotating 6-m mesh …

In the face of rapid global change it is imperative to preserve geodiversity for the overall
conservation of biodiversity. Geodiversity is important for understanding complex …

Soil conditions under vegetation cover and their spatial and temporal variations from point
to catchment scale are crucial for understanding hydrological processes within the vadose …

The Radar Vegetation Index (RVI) is a well-established microwave metric of vegetation
cover. The index utilizes measured linear scattering intensities from co- and cross-polarization …

In the last decade, technological advances led to the launch of two satellite missions dedicated
to measure the Earth’s surface soil moisture (SSM): the ESA’s Soil Moisture and Ocean …

The monitoring of soil freezing and thawing states over large areas is very challenging on
ground. In order to investigate the potential and the limitations of space-borne SAR polarimetry …

During the last decade, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) became an indispensable source of
information in Earth observation. This has been possible mainly due to the current trend …

The estimation of volumetric soil moisture under low agricultural vegetation from fully
polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data at L-band using a multi-angular polarimetric …

An iterative, generalized hybrid polarimetric decomposition, combining model-based and
eigen-based techniques together with a generalized vegetation model, is developed for soil …