Soil Moisture Change Retrieval Using S-Band Radar Data During SGP99 and SMEX02

Author

Chen, Quan ; Li, Zhen ; Wang, Lei ; Shao, Yun ; Cheng, Tianhai

Volume

2

fYear

2008

fDate

7-11 July 2008

Abstract

HJ-1C will be launched at the end of 2008, it is a component of HJ satellites which are developed in China. HJ-1C SAR has a frequency of S-band (3.2 GHz), VV single polarization, and incident angle range from 25deg-47deg. Soil moisture retrieval using L- and C-band radar has been widely studied, but little attention was paid to S-band data. For the application of HJ-1C SAR, in this paper, the available data of S-band radar data by PALS (Passive and Active L- and S-band sensor) from SGP99 and SMEX02 experiments was used to study the potential of soil moisture change retrieval using S-band single polarization radar.

Keywords

hydrological techniques; moisture; remote sensing by radar; soil; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; AD 2008; HJ-1C satellite; S-band radar data; SGP99 experiment; SMEX02 experiment; frequency 3.2 GHz; soil moisture change retrieval; Backscatter; Geoscience; Information retrieval; Optical scattering; Polarization; Radar applications; Radar scattering; Remote sensing; Soil moisture; Vegetation; HJ-1C; S-Band; radar; soil moisture;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2807-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2808-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779117

Filename

4779117