Research Article
Multitemporal Soil Moisture Retrieval over Bare Agricultural Areas by Means of Alpha Model with Multisensor SAR Data
Table 3
The statistics results of the field measurements over the study area.
| Field measurement | Experimental area | Sampling number | Soil moisture (cm3/cm3) | h (cm) | l (cm) | Min | Max | Average | Min | Max | Average | Min | Max | Average |
| 13 Oct. 2015 | JiuLong | 27 | 0.03 | 0.345 | 0.116 | 0.51 | 1.79 | 1.13 | 7.3 | 20.2 | 15.1 | WanNian | 26 | 0.06 | 0.307 | 0.15 | 0.50 | 1.88 | 1.12 | 7.6 | 21.8 | 16.3 |
| 6 Nov. 2015 | JiuLong | 21 | 0.249 | 0.427 | 0.34 | 0.61 | 1.67 | 1.07 | 5.6 | 17.7 | 13.6 | WanNian | 23 | 0.224 | 0.508 | 0.297 | 0.57 | 1.73 | 1.11 | 6.7 | 19.7 | 15.4 |
| 24 Dec. 2015 | JiuLong | 30 | 0.15 | 0.464 | 0.243 | 0.54 | 1.77 | 1.09 | 7.7 | 18.5 | 14.3 | WanNian | 27 | 0.13 | 0.421 | 0.194 | 0.60 | 1.90 | 1.17 | 8.3 | 21.9 | 16.7 |
| 17 Jan. 2016 | JiuLong | 30 | 0.118 | 0.322 | 0.193 | 0.66 | 1.64 | 1.03 | 5.2 | 18.9 | 15.3 | WanNian | 30 | 0.11 | 0.452 | 0.202 | 0.59 | 1.78 | 1.13 | 7.9 | 23.1 | 17.6 |
| 5 Mar. 2016 | JiuLong | 30 | 0.067 | 0.46 | 0.176 | 0.63 | 1.73 | 1.17 | 6.4 | 21.6 | 16.1 | WanNian | 30 | 0.06 | 0.29 | 0.147 | 0.60 | 1.71 | 1.11 | 6.1 | 22.3 | 16.8 |
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