Airborne soil moisture determination using a data fusion approach at regional level

Author

Martín, Francisco ; Marchan, Juan Fernando ; Aguasca, Albert ; Vall-llossera, Mercedes ; Corbera, Jordi ; Camps, Adriano ; Piles, Maria ; Pipia, Luca ; Tardà, Anna ; Villafranca, Alberto G.

Author_Institution

Catalan Earth Obs. Program, Inst. Cartografic de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

fYear

2011

fDate

24-29 July 2011

Firstpage

3109

Lastpage

3112

Abstract

HUMID is a regional level airborne soil moisture mission. The envisioned product combines two key characteristics. On one hand, it provides robustness in presence of surface roughness and vegetation. On the other hand, it improves the current spatial resolution offered by L-band radiometers using a data fusion approach, where the data from an L-band radiometer developed by the Remote Sensing Lab at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya will be combined with data from a thermal and a VNIR hyperspectral sensors from the Institut Cartografic de Catalunya.

Keywords

radiometry; soil; vegetation; Institut Cartografic de Catalunya; L-band radiometers; Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya; VNIR hyperspectral sensors; airborne soil moisture determination; data fusion approach; microwave radiometry; regional level; remote sensing lab; surface roughness; vegetation indexes; Hyperspectral sensors; Indexes; Radiometers; Soil moisture; Vegetation mapping; Soil moisture; VNIR; data fusion; microwave radiometry; surface temperature; vegetation indexes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2011 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1003-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6049876

Filename

6049876