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On the characterization of agricultural soil roughness for radar remote sensing studies by Davidson, M. W. J., Thuy Le Toan, Mattia, F., Satalino, G., Manninen, T., Borgeaud, M.

“…The surface roughness parameters commonly used as inputs to electromagnetic surface scattering models (SPM, PO, GO, and IEM) are the root mean square (RMS)…”
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The BIOMASS mission: Mapping global forest biomass to better understand the terrestrial carbon cycle by Le Toan, T., Quegan, S., Davidson, M.W.J., Balzter, H., Paillou, P., Papathanassiou, K., Plummer, S., Rocca, F., Saatchi, S., Shugart, H., Ulander, L.

“…In response to the urgent need for improved mapping of global biomass and the lack of any current space systems capable of addressing this need, the BIOMASS…”
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Sentinel-1 & Sentinel-2 for SOIL Moisture Retrieval at Field Scale by Mattia, F., Balenzano, A., Satalino, G., Lovergine, F., Peng, J., Wegmuller, U., Cartus, O., Davidson, M. W J., Kim, S., Johnson, J., Walker, J., Wu, X, Pauwels, V.R.N, McNairn, H., Caldwell, T., Cosh, M., Jackson, T.

“…Soil moisture content is an essential climate variable that is operationally delivered at low resolution (e.g. 36-9 km) by earth observation missions, such as…”
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The TropiSAR Airborne Campaign in French Guiana: Objectives, Description, and Observed Temporal Behavior of the Backscatter Signal by Dubois-Fernandez, P. C., Thuy Le Toan, Daniel, S., Oriot, H., Chave, J., Blanc, L., Villard, L., Davidson, M. W. J., Petit, M.

“…The TropiSAR campaign has been conducted in August 2009 in French Guiana with the ONERA airborne radar system SETHI. The main objective of this campaign was to…”
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Parameterization of tillage-induced single-scale soil roughness from 4-m profiles by Callens, M., Verhoest, N.E.C., Davidson, M.W.J.

“…Soil roughness greatly affects the scattering process of microwaves to the soil surface. Previous studies showed that the values of roughness parameters…”
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Nordic Snow Radar Experiment by Lemmetyinen, Juha, Kontu, Anna, Pulliainen, Jouni, Vehviläinen, Juho, Rautiainen, Kimmo, Wiesmann, Andreas, Mätzler, Christian, Werner, Charles, Rott, Helmut, Nagler, Thomas, Schneebeli, Martin, Proksch, Martin, Schüttemeyer, Dirk, Kern, Michael, Davidson, Malcolm W. J

“…The objective of the Nordic Snow Radar Experiment (NoSREx) campaign was to provide a continuous time series of active and passive microwave observations of…”
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The BIOMASS mission: Mapping global forest biomass to better understand the terrestrial carbon cycle: DESDynnI VEG-3D Special Issue by LE TOAN, T, QUEGAN, S, ULANDER, L, DAVIDSON, M. W. J, BALZTER, H, PAILLOU, P, PAPATHANASSIOU, K, PLUMMER, S, ROCCA, F, SAATCHI, S, SHUGART, H

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On current limits of soil moisture retrieval from ERS-SAR data by Satalino, G., Mattia, F., Davidson, M.W.J., Thuy Le Toan, Pasquariello, G., Borgeaud, M.

“…Assesses the feasibility of retrieving soil moisture content over smooth bare-soil fields using European Remote Sensing synthetic aperture radar (ERS-SAR)…”
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A comparison between soil roughness statistics used in surface scattering models derived from mechanical and laser profilers by Mattia, F., Davidson, M.W.J., Le Toan, T., D'Haese, C.M.F., Verhoest, N.E.C., Gatti, A.M., Borgeaud, M.

“…The objective of this paper is to quantify the impact of the type of surface-profiling instrument on the roughness measurements in radar remote sensing…”
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Joint statistical properties of RMS height and correlation length derived from multisite 1-m roughness measurements by Davidson, M.W.J., Mattia, F., Satalino, G., Verhoest, N.E.C., Le Toan, T., Borgeaud, M., Louis, J.M.B., Attema, E.

“…This paper aims to establish the joint roughness statistics for rms height s and correlation length l for agricultural bare soil fields and a variety of…”
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Monitoring Surface Soil Moisture in Post-Harvest Rice Areas Using C-band Radar Imagery in Northeast Thailand by Kaojarern, S., Toan, T. Le, Davidson, M. W. J.

“…The objective of this study is to estimate the residual surface soil moisture of rice fields after harvesting, in Northeast Thailand, using C-band SAR images…”
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Sentinel-1 high resolution soil moisture by Mattia, F., Balenzano, A., Satalino, G., Lovergine, F., Loew, A., Peng, J., Wegmuller, U., Santoro, M., Cartus, O., Dabrowska-Zielinska, K., Musial, J., Davidson, M. W. J., Yueh, S., Kim, S., Das, N., Colliander, A., Johnson, J., Ouellette, J., Walker, J., Wu, X., McNairn, H., Merzouki, A., Powers, J., Caldwell, T., Entekhabi, D., Cosh, M., Jackson, T.

“…The systematic retrieval of near surface soil moisture (SSM) fields at high resolution (e.g., 0.1-1.0 km) is a challenging task that requires the exploitation…”
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ESA's biomass mission candidate system and payload overview by Arcioni, M., Bensi, P., Davidson, M. W. J., Drinkwater, M., Fois, F., Lin, C.-C, Meynart, R., Scipal, K., Silvestrin, P.

“…The European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing candidates for the next Earth Explorer Core mission with the aim to select the 7th Earth Explorer mission to be…”
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