Title :
The potential of multi-temporal Cosmo-Skymed SAR images in monitoring soil and vegetation
Author :
Santi, Enrico ; Pettinato, S. ; Paloscia, S. ; Brogioni, M. ; Fontanelli, G. ; Pampaloni, P. ; Macelloni, G. ; Montomoli, Francesco
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Appl. Phys., IFAC-CNR, Firenze, Italy
Abstract :
The results of an experiment carried out in Italy for exploiting the capabilities of X-band SAR in the monitoring of soil and vegetation characteristics are summarized in this paper. Data from X-band Cosmo-Skymed mission have been collected in two agricultural areas and compared with C-band data of ENVISAT/ASAR and with ground truth measurements. In general, a certain sensitivity to vegetation biomass and to moisture of bare soils has been found.
Keywords :
data analysis; geophysical image processing; remote sensing by radar; soil; synthetic aperture radar; vegetation mapping; ASAR; C-band data analysis; ENVISAT; Italy; X-band Cosmo-Skymed mission; X-band SAR capabilities; bare soil moisture; multitemporal COSMO-Skymed SAR image; soil monitoring method; vegetation biomass analysis; vegetation characteristics; vegetation monitoring method; Agriculture; Backscatter; Biomass; Remote sensing; Sensitivity; Soil; Vegetation mapping; COSMO-Skymed; X-band backscattering; soil moisture; vegetation biomass;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2011 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1003-2
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6049360
