Estimation of snow pack characteristics and snow covered area in boreal forests from ERS-2 SAR and Envisat ASAR data

Author

Pulliainen, Jouni ; Luojus, Kari ; Hallikainen, Martti ; Metsämäki, Sari ; Koskinen, Jarkko ; Kama, J.-P. ; Huttunen, Markus ; Rasmus, Sirpa

Author_Institution

Lab. of Space Technol., Helsinki Univ. of Technol.

Volume

6

fYear

2004

fDate

20-24 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

3680

Abstract

Estimation of snow moisture (total liquid water content) and the fraction of snow covered area (SCA) are investigated by applying multi-year ERS-2 SAR and Envisat ASAR data sets. An inversion approach for the moisture retrieval is introduced. The results suggest that C-band radar is operationally feasible for both applications

Keywords

forestry; geophysical signal processing; hydrological techniques; inverse problems; moisture measurement; remote sensing by radar; snow; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; C-band radar; ERS-2 SAR data; Envisat ASAR data; Finland; boreal forests; hydrological process; inversion method; moisture retrieval; snow covered area; snow moisture estimation; snow pack characteristic estimation; synthetic aperture radar; total liquid water content; Geophysical measurements; Moisture; Predictive models; Rivers; Satellites; Snow; Space technology; Spaceborne radar; Springs; Weather forecasting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004. IGARSS '04. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Anchorage, AK

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8742-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2004.1369918

Filename

1369918