ESTAR measurements during SGP-99

Author

Vine, D. M Le ; Haken, M. ; Bidwell, S. ; Swift, C.T. ; Jackson, T.

Author_Institution

Microwave Sensor Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

1063

Abstract

The synthetic aperture radiometer, ESTAR, provided L-band brightness temperature maps of the experiment site during the Southern Great Plains Experiment in 1999. ESTAR flew on the NASA P-3B Orion aircraft at an altitude of 7.6 km and mapped a swath about 50 km wide and about 300 km long, extending west from Oklahoma City to El Reno and north from below the Little Washita River watershed to the Kansas border. The brightness temperature maps reflect the patterns of soil moisture expected from rainfall and observed at the surface sites within the SGP99 study area

Keywords

hydrological techniques; hydrology; moisture measurement; radiometry; remote sensing; soil; terrain mapping; AD 1999; ESTAR; El Reno; Kansas; L-band; Little Washita River watershed; Oklahoma City; SGP99; Southern Great Plains Experiment; UHF; USA; United States; brightness temperature map; hydrology; measurement technique; microwave radiometry; remote sensing; soil moisture; synthetic aperture radiometer; Apertures; Brightness temperature; Cities and towns; Instruments; L-band; Laboratories; Microwave radiometry; Remote sensing; Soil moisture; Space technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2000. Proceedings. IGARSS 2000. IEEE 2000 International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6359-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2000.858022

Filename

858022