Soil moisture in pasture fields using ERS-1 synthetic aperture radar

Author

Filho, Otto C Rotunno ; Soulis, Eric D. ; Abdeh-Kolahchi, A. ; Kouwen, N. ; Pultz, T.J. ; Crenier, Y.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Civil Eng., Waterloo Univ., Ont., Canada

Volume

1

fYear

34881

fDate

10-14 Jul1995

Firstpage

731

Abstract

Soil moisture information is used in physically-based spatially distributed hydrological modeling to determine infiltration. Active microwave remotely sensed images are a relatively new data source that may provide hydrologists and soil scientists with the possibility of mapping soil moisture accurately at the watershed scale. The paper explores the feasibility of using pasture fields as index fields in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery for soil moisture mapping

Keywords

hydrological techniques; moisture measurement; radar imaging; remote sensing by radar; soil; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; ERS-1 synthetic aperture radar; active microwave remotely sensed images; infiltration; pasture fields; soil moisture information; spatially distributed hydrological modeling; watershed scale; Civil engineering; Image resolution; Image sampling; Layout; Radar remote sensing; Remote sensing; Rivers; Satellites; Soil moisture; Synthetic aperture radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1995. IGARSS '95. 'Quantitative Remote Sensing for Science and Applications', International

Conference_Location

Firenze

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2567-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1995.520570

Filename

520570