Title :
A pre-operational algorithm for the retrieval of snow depth and soil moisture from AMSR-E data
Author :
Santi, Emanuele ; Pettinato, Simone ; Brogioni, Marco ; Macelloni, Giovanni ; Montomoli, Francesco ; Paloscia, Simonetta ; Pampaloni, Paolo
Author_Institution :
CNR-IFAC, Firenze, Italy
Abstract :
This work deals with mapping snow water equivalent as well as soil moisture at low resolution from multifrequency microwave radiometers. The algorithm developed and implemented in this work produces the spatial distribution at regional scale of snow depth (SD) and of soil moisture (SMC) of snow free areas by using the brightness temperatures of the Advanced Multifrequency Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E).
Keywords :
data acquisition; geophysical signal processing; hydrological techniques; microwave measurement; moisture measurement; radiometry; snow; soil; AMSR-E data; Advanced Multifrequency Scanning Radiometer; brightness temperature; multifrequency microwave radiometer; preoperational algorithm; snow depth retrieval; snow free area; snow water equivalent mapping; soil moisture retrieval; spatial distribution; Artificial neural networks; Indexes; Microwave radiometry; Microwave theory and techniques; Remote sensing; Snow; Soil moisture; AMSR-E; Snow Depth; Soil Moisture Content; inversion algorithms;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9565-8
Electronic_ISBN :
2153-6996
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5652009
