In:
Water Resources Research, American Geophysical Union (AGU), Vol. 31, No. 4 ( 1995-04), p. 975-982
Abstract:
One of the possible applications of satellite radar remote sensing is to estimate surface soil moisture. To evaluate the capacity of ERS 1/synthetic aperture radar (SAR), a European Space Agency (ESA) pilot project has been set up. The test site is a small agricultural watershed situated in the central part of French Brittany. During 1992 and 1993, almost all possible SAR images were acquired together with two types of ground truths: intensive ground measurements during 14 field campaigns and point automatic measurements over the entire period. From the comparison of those ground truth data with the ERS 1 images, the following results are obtained. On a field scale the relation between the radar signal and the surface soil moisture depends strongly on the type of culture: Correlation is poor for the different cultures except for wheat. On a basin scale, it is shown that during the period of low vegetation density, there is a linear correlation between the mean radar data and the point automatic measurements. This last result is very encouraging and could open the way to hydrological applications.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0043-1397
,
1944-7973
Language:
English
Publisher:
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Publication Date:
1995
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2029553-4
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5564-5
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13
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14
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