A pre-operational algorithm for the retrieval of snow depth and soil moisture from AMSR-E data

Author

Santi, Emanuele ; Pettinato, Simone ; Brogioni, Marco ; Macelloni, Giovanni ; Montomoli, Francesco ; Paloscia, Simonetta ; Pampaloni, Paolo

Author_Institution

CNR-IFAC, Firenze, Italy

fYear

2010

fDate

25-30 July 2010

Firstpage

3777

Lastpage

3780

Abstract

This work deals with mapping snow water equivalent as well as soil moisture at low resolution from multifrequency microwave radiometers. The algorithm developed and implemented in this work produces the spatial distribution at regional scale of snow depth (SD) and of soil moisture (SMC) of snow free areas by using the brightness temperatures of the Advanced Multifrequency Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E).

Keywords

data acquisition; geophysical signal processing; hydrological techniques; microwave measurement; moisture measurement; radiometry; snow; soil; AMSR-E data; Advanced Multifrequency Scanning Radiometer; brightness temperature; multifrequency microwave radiometer; preoperational algorithm; snow depth retrieval; snow free area; snow water equivalent mapping; soil moisture retrieval; spatial distribution; Artificial neural networks; Indexes; Microwave radiometry; Microwave theory and techniques; Remote sensing; Snow; Soil moisture; AMSR-E; Snow Depth; Soil Moisture Content; inversion algorithms;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9565-8

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5652009

Filename

5652009