Title :
Monitoring seasonally frozen soils using passive microwave satellite data and simulation modeling
Author :
Toll, David L. ; Owe, Manfred ; Foster, James ; Levine, Elissa
Author_Institution :
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Abstract :
Passive microwave satellite data and simulation modeling were studied to assess seasonally frozen soils for north central U.S. and Canada. Classification of SMMR data provided an overall accuracy of 85.9% as compared to 5-cm soil temperature measurements. Preliminary work with a simulation model, FroST (Frozen Soil Temperature) indicates potential to more extensively study frozen soils
Keywords :
hydrological techniques; ice; radiometry; remote sensing; soil; terrain mapping; Canada; FroST; Frozen Soil Temperature; SMMR; USA; United States; frozen soil; hydrology; ice; land surface; measurement technique; microwave radiometry; passive microwave method; remote sensing; satellite method; season; seasonally frozen; simulation model; temperature; terrain mapping; Biological system modeling; Dielectrics; Earth; Frequency; Land surface; Monitoring; Satellite broadcasting; Soil; Springs; Surface topography;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1999. IGARSS '99 Proceedings. IEEE 1999 International
Conference_Location :
Hamburg
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5207-6
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.1999.774561
