Title :
Status of the Metop ASCAT soil moisture product
Author :
Wagner, Wolfgang ; Bartalis, Zoltan ; Naeimi, Vahid ; Park, Sang-Eun ; Figa-Saldaña, Julia ; Bonekamp, Hans
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing, Vienna Univ. of Technol., Vienna, Austria
Abstract :
Since December 2008 the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) has been disseminating global 25 km ASCAT surface soil moisture data in near real-time (within 135 minutes after sensing) over its broadcast system EUMETCast. The ASCAT surface soil moisture product is thus the first truly operational satellite soil moisture product that may be used for Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP), flood forecasting and other time-critical applications. In this paper we provide information about the status of the ASCAT Level 2 soil moisture processor, review first published validation and application studies and discuss plans for further improvements.
Keywords :
floods; soil; weather forecasting; AD 2008 12; ASCAT Level 2 soil moisture processor; ASCAT surface soil moisture data; EUMETCast; European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites; Metop ASCAT soil moisture product; flood forecasting; numerical weather prediction; Backscatter; Radar measurements; Satellite broadcasting; Satellites; Soil moisture; Spaceborne radar; ASCAT; Metop; Scatterometer; processing; soil moisture;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9565-8
Electronic_ISBN :
2153-6996
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5653358
