A Polarization Retrieval Model of Soil Moisture and Experiment

agriculture,hydrology and meteorology,monitoring the soil moisture in real time and in the long term by the remote sensing technology is very meaningful.However,how to quantitatively retrieve the properties of objectives is a unsolved problem in remote sensing.A new polarimetric method,which is different from the traditional remote sensing by radiometry,was employed for retrieving the soil moisture.A scattering polarization model was developed to analyze the polarimetric characteristics of soil moisture.And this model was examined by experiments.We found that the modeling data were very close to the experimental data.So the quantitative relationship between the parameters of this model and the soil moisture could be found.