Title :
Surface soil moisture estimation from SAR data over wheat fields during the ADAM project
Author :
PREVOT, Laurent ; Poenaru, Violeta ; Voicu, P. ; Vintila, R. ; Deboissezon, Hélène ; Pourthie, Nadine
Author_Institution :
LISAH, INRA, Montpellier, France
Abstract :
Surface soil moisture estimation from SAR (ERS-2 and Radarsat) images was investigated using the "water-cloud" model. It was verified that the "water-cloud" model can adequately represent the backscattering coefficients over winter wheat fields, during the entire growing season, as a function of canopy water content and surface soil moisture.
Keywords :
backscatter; remote sensing by radar; soil; synthetic aperture radar; ADAM project; ERS-2 images; Radarsat images; SAR data; backscattering coefficients; canopy water content; surface soil moisture; synthetic aperture radar data; water-cloud model; winter wheat fields; Backscatter; Calibration; Crops; Extraterrestrial measurements; Image resolution; Soil measurements; Soil moisture; Spatial resolution; Surface soil; Vegetation mapping;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2003. IGARSS '03. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7929-2
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2003.1294620
