First investigations on influence of resolution cell size for monitoring bare agricultural soil by using Ground Based SAR (PoSAR) system measurements

Author

Allain, Sophie ; Meric, Stephane ; Hongquan Wang ; Pottier, Eric

Author_Institution

Remote Sensing Team, Inst. of Electron. & Telecommun. of Rennes (IETR), Rennes, France

fYear

2014

fDate

6-9 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

1828

Lastpage

1831

Abstract

The objective of this study is to evaluate the influence of resolution cell size of a SAR image for bare agricultural soil monitoring. In order to achieve this objective, we propose to use Ground Based (GB) SAR experiments, in which the specific levels of surface roughness and soil moisture are set deliberately. In these investigations, we propose to study the backscattering coefficients σ_HH, σ_HV for different surface roughness values regarding multi-resolution. The results we obtained with our GB-SAR system (called PoSAR for Pocket SAR) are in agreement with previous experiments on indoor SAR measurements (JRC dataset).

Keywords

hydrological techniques; remote sensing by radar; soil; synthetic aperture radar; vegetation; GB-SAR system; PoSAR system measurement; SAR image; backscattering coefficients; bare agricultural soil monitoring; ground based SAR experiments; ground based SAR system measurement; indoor SAR measurements; resolution cell size; soil moisture; surface roughness levels; surface roughness values; Image resolution; Rough surfaces; Soil measurements; Soil moisture; Surface roughness; Synthetic aperture radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference (EuMC), 2014 44th European

Conference_Location

Rome

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EuMC.2014.6986815

Filename

6986815