Land cover effects on ERS scatterometer data

Author

Wagner, Wolfgang ; Lemoine, Guido

Author_Institution

Inst. for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing, Tech. Univ. Wien, Austria

Volume

3

fYear

1998

fDate

6-10 Jul 1998

Firstpage

1574

Abstract

Land cover effects on ERS scatterometer data are investigated by comparing backscatter parameters with statistics derived from the CORINE land cover classes of the Iberian Peninsula. Although built-up areas, water bodies, and rocky surfaces are important most of the spatial variability of the ERS scatterometer signal can be explained by the percent area of translucent vegetation (grasses, agricultural crops) and non-transparent vegetation (forest, bushes, and shrubs) within the resolution cell of the sensor

Keywords

backscatter; remote sensing by radar; 5.3 GHz; C-band radar; CORINE land cover classes; ERS scatterometer data; Iberian Peninsula; agricultural crops; backscatter parameters; built-up areas; bushes; forest; grasses; land cover effects; nontransparent vegetation; rocky surfaces; sensor resolution cell; shrubs; spatial variability; statistics; translucent vegetation; water bodies; Backscatter; Data mining; Radar measurements; Remote sensing; Soil moisture; Space technology; Spaceborne radar; Spatial resolution; Statistics; Vegetation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings, 1998. IGARSS '98. 1998 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4403-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1998.691619

Filename

691619