The satellite based passive (radiometer) and active (radar) microwave sensors enhanced
our ability to retrieve soil moisture at global scales. It has been almost four decades since …

Radar data have been used to retrieve and monitor the surface soil moisture (SM) changes
in various conditions. However, the calibration of radar models whether empirically or …

Soil moisture mapping at a high spatial resolution is very important for several applications
in hydrology, agriculture and risk assessment. With the arrival of the free Sentinel data at …

This paper presents a model of microwave emissions from rough surfaces. We derive a
more complete expression of the single-scattering terms in the integral equation method …

The main objective of this study is to analyze the potential use of Sentinel-1 (S1) radar data
for the estimation of soil characteristics (roughness and water content) and cereal vegetation …

A new empirical model for the retrieval, at a field scale, of the bare soil moisture content and
the surface roughness characteristics from radar measurements is proposed. The derivation …

Synthetic Aperture Radar has shown its large potential for retrieving soil moisture maps at
regional scales. However, since the backscattered signal is determined by several surface …

The importance of land surface-atmosphere interactions, principally the effects of soil
moisture, on hydrological, meteorological, and ecological processes has gained widespread …

The surface roughness parameters commonly used as inputs to electromagnetic surface
scattering models (SPM, PO, GO, and IEM) are the root mean square (RMS) height s, and …

The objective of this paper is to propose a new semi-empirical radar backscattering model
for bare soil surfaces based on the Dubois model. A wide dataset of backscattering …