Soil erosion estimation by dual-polarization radar remote sensing

Author

Kulemin, G.P.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Radiophys. & Electron., Acad. of Sci., Kharkov, Ukraine

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

846

Abstract

A possibility of soil erosion estimation is considered. It is shown that the use of multifrequency and dual-polarization radar methods permits to estimate the rms values of roughness and spatial correlation radius of soil. It is demonstrated that a fractal approximation of surface spatial spectra enables one to obtain the most accurate estimations of soil surface parameters. Experimental results at wavelengths of 3.0 and 0.8 cm are presented as well showing the possibility of dual polarization data processing for soil erosion degree determination

Keywords

erosion; geomorphology; geophysical techniques; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; soil; terrain mapping; 0.8 cm; 3 cm; EHF; SHF; dual-polarization radar; fractal approximation; geomorphology; geophysical measurement technique; land surface; multifrequency radar; radar polarimetry; radar remote sensing; roughness; soil erosion; spatial correlation radius; terrain mapping; Moisture; Polarization; Radar antennas; Radar cross section; Radar remote sensing; Radar scattering; Rough surfaces; Soil measurements; Surface roughness; Wavelength measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1999. IGARSS '99 Proceedings. IEEE 1999 International

Conference_Location

Hamburg

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5207-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1999.774461

Filename

774461