Backscattering for Soil Moisture

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Bacscatter can be retrieved by calibrating to Sigma0

Please have a look at these steps:

Radiometric & Geometric Correction Workflow

for SLC data I would suggest TOPS Split Apply Orbit file Thermal Noise Removal Calibration to Beta0* TOPSAR Deburst Radiometric terrain flattening (Speckle filtering) Range Doppler Terrain Correction If you don’t need the phase information you can also download it as a GRD product and only apply the following: Apply Orbit file Thermal noise removal Calibration to Beta0 Radiometric terrain flattening (Speckle filtering) Range Doppler Terrain Correction or (if you don’t have much topography)…

Downloading GRD data could be sufficient for your purpose.