Title :
Exploiting GNSS signals for soil moisture and vegetation biomass retrieval
Author :
Nazzareno Pierdicca;Leila Guerriero;Alejandro Egido;Simonetta Paloscia;Nicolas Floury
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Information Eng. Electronics and Telecommunications, Sapienza Univ. of Rome - Italy
fDate :
7/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
This paper reviews the simulation tool developed to predict the GNSS-R signal over land (bare soil and vegetation). The tool is presently being used to test the capability to retrieve the main land parameters, namely soil moisture and vegetation biomass. An ongoing research is using the simulations to assess a multistatic concept which aims to take advantage of the combination of GNSS-R and radar backscattering data provided by a SAR or the GNSS receiver itself. Preliminary performance assessments are presented.
Keywords :
"Soil moisture","Biomass","Vegetation mapping","Spaceborne radar","Global Positioning System","Backscatter"
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2015 IEEE International
Electronic_ISBN :
2153-7003
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2015.7326985
