Land applications of ERS-1 Wind Scatterometer in boreal forest zone

Author

Pulliainen, Jouni ; Walker, Nicholas ; Manninen, Terhikki ; Hallikainen, Martti ; Grandell, Jochen

Author_Institution

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

Volume

1

fYear

1996

fDate

27-31 May 1996

Firstpage

583

Abstract

The feasibility of the ERS-1 Wind Scatterometer (WS) for land applications in the boreal forest zone was analyzed using data (1) from test areas located in Finland and (2) covering the European boreal forest zone. The results show that the ERS-1 Wind Scatterometer has potential for some applications: the monitoring of soil frost and the retrieval of soil moisture/vegetation water content. The major problem in the employment of the ERS-1 scatterometer for land applications is its poor spatial resolution (47 km). This paper will also address the problem of improving the spatial resolution of the ERS-1 scatterometer data. It is shown that a realistic figure for the improved resolution is 25 km

Keywords

forestry; geophysical techniques; hydrological techniques; moisture measurement; remote sensing by radar; soil; spaceborne radar; C-band; ERS-1 Wind Scatterometer; Europe; Finland; SHF; boreal forest zone; forestry; frost; geophysical measurement technique; hydrology; ice; image resolution; land surface; radar remote sensing; soil moisture; spaceborne radar scatterometry; spatial resolution; terrain mapping; vegetation mapping; vegetation water content; Backscatter; Hydrologic measurements; Radar measurements; Soil measurements; Soil moisture; Space technology; Spaceborne radar; Spatial resolution; Testing; Wind;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1996. IGARSS '96. 'Remote Sensing for a Sustainable Future.', International

Conference_Location

Lincoln, NE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3068-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1996.516410

Filename

516410