Microwave Observatory of Subcanopy and Subsurface (MOSS): a low-frequency radar for global deep soil moisture measurements

Author

Moghaddam, M. ; Rodriguez, E. ; Rahmat-Samii, Y. ; Moller, D. ; Hoffman, J. ; Huang, J. ; Saatchi, S.

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

21-25 July 2003

Firstpage

500

Abstract

Measurements of deep and subcanopy soil moisture are critical in understanding the global water and energy cycle, as well as the interaction of the carbon and water cycles, but are presently not available on a synoptic basis. In this paper, a low-frequency UHF/VHF radar mission concept is presented and technology challenges to implement it are discussed. This mission concept is currently being studies under a NASA/ESTO instrument incubator program (IIP) project. The progresses of several aspects of the project are discussed.

Keywords

hydrological techniques; moisture; remote sensing by radar; soil; vegetation mapping; IIP project; MOSS; Microwave Observatory of Subcanopy and Subsurface; NASA/ESTO IIP; UHF/VHF radar mission; carbon cycle; energy cycle; global deep soil moisture measurement; global water cycle; instrument incubator program; low-frequency radar; subcanopy soil moisture; Energy measurement; Microwave measurements; Moisture measurement; NASA; Observatories; Radar measurements; Soil measurements; Soil moisture; Space technology; UHF measurements;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2003. IGARSS '03. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7929-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2003.1293822

Filename

1293822