Monitoring crop biomass and soil moisture with airborne microwave radiometers

Author

Macelloni, G. ; Paloscia, S. ; Pampaloni, P. ; Ruisi, R. ; Susini, C.

Author_Institution

Ist. di Ricerca sulle Onde Elettromagnetiche, CNR, Firenze, Italy

Volume

4

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

2327

Abstract

This paper presents the results obtained during the airborne IROE-STAAARTE campaign in 1997 on the agricultural site “Les Alpilles” (France). The radiometric measurements were carried out using the French airplane ARAT equipped with two microwave IROE radiometers at C- and X- bands (6.8 and 10 GHz) and one infrared sensor (8-14 micron). Using two frequency data it was possible to separate six vegetation classes of the whole area. The soil moisture of agricultural fields was estimated using the C-band normalized temperature, whilst the biomass of wheat was retrieved through the polarisation index at X-band

Keywords

agriculture; geophysical techniques; hydrological techniques; moisture measurement; radiometry; remote sensing; soil; 10 GHz; 6.8 GHz; 8 to 14 mum; AD 1997; ARAT; C-band; France; IROE; Les Alpilles; SHF; STAAARTE; X- band; agricultural fields; agriculture; airborne method; crop biomass; crops; geophysical measurement technique; hydrology; infrared imaging; land surface; microwave radiometry; monitoring; polarimetry; polarisation; remote sensing; soil moisture; vegetation class; vegetation mapping; wheat; Airplanes; Biomass; Crops; Infrared sensors; Microwave measurements; Microwave radiometry; Monitoring; Radiometers; Soil measurements; Soil moisture;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1999. IGARSS '99 Proceedings. IEEE 1999 International

Conference_Location

Hamburg

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5207-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1999.775117

Filename

775117