Retrieval of soil moisture with airborne and satellite microwave sensors

Author

Santi, E. ; Paloscia, S. ; Pampaloni, P. ; Pettinato, S. ; Brogioni, M.

Author_Institution

IFAC, CNR, Firenze, Italy

Volume

2

fYear

2009

fDate

12-17 July 2009

Abstract

Experimental campaigns with airborne and satellite microwave sensors have been carried out on an agricultural area in Northern Italy with the main purpose of gathering a suitable set of data to validate two operational algorithms developed to retrieve soil moisture from passive and active microwave sensors at different spatial scales. The algorithms will be used in a pilot project based on the use of Earth observation data in forecasting and monitoring the risk of floods and landslides. Radiometric data have been collected with the airborne IFAC instruments and the AMSR-E, while ENVISAT/ASAR images have been acquired for high resolution estimate of soil moisture at field scale.

Keywords

disasters; hydrology; microwave measurement; radiometry; remote sensing; soil; synthetic aperture radar; AMSR-E; ENVISAT/ASAR images; Earth observation data; Northern Italy; airborne IFAC instruments; airborne sensors; disaster forecasting; disaster monitoring; floods; landslides; radiometry; satellite microwave sensors; soil moisture retrieval; Earth; Floods; Information retrieval; Instruments; Microwave radiometry; Microwave sensors; Monitoring; Satellite broadcasting; Soil moisture; Terrain factors; Airborne sensors; SAR data; microwave radiometers; soil moisture;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium,2009 IEEE International,IGARSS 2009

Conference_Location

Cape Town

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3394-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3395-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5418252

Filename

5418252