Assessment of boreal forest biomass using L-band radiometer SMOS data

This paper employs a method based on a parameterized first-order radiative transfer (RT) model at L-band to evaluate the aboveground biomass of forest area using Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) data. A comprehensive database, including forest structure information based on L-system and the corresponding scattering properties, was established. Then the parameterized first-order RT retrieval model was used to acquire the forest parameters. The Look-Up Table method was used to find the proper biomass value. We retrieved the single scattering albedo and the optical thickness and then found the biomass value which approximated to the reference dataset.