Passive microwave remote sensing with the synthetic aperture radiometer, ESTAR, during the Southern Great Plains experiment

Author

Le Vine, D.M. ; Jackson, T.J. ; Swift, C.T. ; Isham, J. ; Haken, M. ; Hsu, A.

Author_Institution

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

Volume

5

fYear

1998

fDate

6-10 Jul 1998

Firstpage

2606

Abstract

Results are presented of measurements made by the synthetic aperture radiometer, ESTAR, during the Southern Great Plains experiment in Oklahoma during the summer, 1997. The objective of the Southern Great Plains experiment (SGP97) was to study passive microwave remote sensing of soil moisture on a spatial and temporal scale representative of future observations from space. To this end, ESTAR flew at high altitude (7.6 km) and mapped a swath about 50 km wide (east-to-west) and about 300 km long. The area mapped extended west from Oklahoma City to El Reno and north from the Little Washita River watershed to the Oklahoma-Kansas border. Data was collected almost daily for one month (from June 17 to July 17) and includes several examples of wetting by rainfall followed by a period of drying

Keywords

hydrological techniques; moisture measurement; radiometry; remote sensing; soil; AD 1997; ESTAR; El Reno; Kansas; Little Washita River; Oklahoma; SGP97; Southern Great Plains experiment; USA; United States; airborne method; hydrology; measurement technique; microwave radiometry; passive microwave remote sensing; remote sensing; soil moisture; synthetic aperture radiometer; synthetic aperture radiometry; Aircraft; Apertures; Calibration; Cities and towns; Instruments; Layout; Microwave radiometry; Passive microwave remote sensing; Remote sensing; Soil moisture;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings, 1998. IGARSS '98. 1998 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4403-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1998.702293

Filename

702293