Title :
Land cover effects on ERS scatterometer data
Author :
Wagner, Wolfgang ; Lemoine, Guido
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing, Tech. Univ. Wien, Austria
Abstract :
Land cover effects on ERS scatterometer data are investigated by comparing backscatter parameters with statistics derived from the CORINE land cover classes of the Iberian Peninsula. Although built-up areas, water bodies, and rocky surfaces are important most of the spatial variability of the ERS scatterometer signal can be explained by the percent area of translucent vegetation (grasses, agricultural crops) and non-transparent vegetation (forest, bushes, and shrubs) within the resolution cell of the sensor
Keywords :
backscatter; remote sensing by radar; 5.3 GHz; C-band radar; CORINE land cover classes; ERS scatterometer data; Iberian Peninsula; agricultural crops; backscatter parameters; built-up areas; bushes; forest; grasses; land cover effects; nontransparent vegetation; rocky surfaces; sensor resolution cell; shrubs; spatial variability; statistics; translucent vegetation; water bodies; Backscatter; Data mining; Radar measurements; Remote sensing; Soil moisture; Space technology; Spaceborne radar; Spatial resolution; Statistics; Vegetation;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings, 1998. IGARSS '98. 1998 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4403-0
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.1998.691619
