Airborne forest monitoring during SMAPEx-3 campaign

Author

Vittucci, Cristina ; Guerriero, Leila ; Ferrazzoli, Paolo ; Rahmoune, R. ; Tanase, M. ; Panciera, Rocco ; Monerris, A. ; Rudiger, Christoph ; Walker, Jeffrey P.

Author_Institution

DICII, Tor Vergata Univ., Rome, Italy

fYear

2013

fDate

21-26 July 2013

Firstpage

987

Lastpage

990

Abstract

This study investigates the potentialities offered by active and passive simultaneous acquisitions at L band for monitoring of soil moisture in forested areas. Airborne data, acquired over the moderately dense Gillenbah forest in the framework of SMAPEx-3 project, have been analyzed to derive the sensitivity of emissivity and backscattering coefficient to soil moisture variations during the campaign, considering a full set of ground measurements characterizing the forest environment.

Keywords

emissivity; moisture; soil; vegetation; vegetation mapping; Australia; Gillenbah forest; L band; SMAPEx-3 campaign; SMAPEx-3 project; active simultaneous acquisitions; airborne data; airborne forest monitoring; backscattering coefficient; emissivity; forest environment; forested areas; ground measurements; passive simultaneous acquisitions; soil moisture monitoring; soil moisture variations; Backscatter; Microwave radiometry; Sensitivity; Soil measurements; Soil moisture; Temperature measurement; Vegetation; SMAPEx; forests; soil moisture;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2013 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Melbourne, VIC

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1114-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6721328

Filename

6721328