Title :
Sensitivity of multi-temporal high resolution polarimetric C and L-band SAR to grapes in vineyards
Author :
Schiavon, G. ; Solimini, D. ; Burini, A.
Author_Institution :
Univ. Tor Vergata, Rome
Abstract :
In the follow-up of the BACCHUS project, aimed at establishing a reference high quality geographic information system for vineyards, an airborne SAR survey has been carried out in fall 2005 in the Frascati area, near Rome (Italy) to investigate on the potential of radar remote sensing in vineyard monitoring. This contribution reports on the polarimetric very- high resolution C and L-band SAR data acquisition campaign supported by ESA and carried out by the DLR E-SAR on two dates in October 2005. The possible relation between the observed variations of backscattering at different polarizations and the harvest of the grapes is discussed.
Keywords :
backscatter; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; vegetation; AD 2005 10; BACCHUS project; DLR E-SAR; ESA; Frascati area; Italy; Rome; Synthetic Aperture Radar; airborne SAR survey; backscattering; data acquisition campaign; frequency 1 GHz to 2 GHz; frequency 4 GHz to 8 GHz; geographic information system; grapes harvest; high resolution polarimetric C-band SAR; high resolution polarimetric L-band SAR; radar remote sensing; vineyards monitoring; Backscatter; Biomass; Geographic Information Systems; Image databases; L-band; Monitoring; Pipelines; Radar polarimetry; Synthetic aperture radar; Vegetation mapping; Polarimetric SAR; biomass; vineyards;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2007. IGARSS 2007. IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Barcelona
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1211-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1212-9
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423637
