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Titel Effective roughness modelling as a tool for soil moisture retrieval from C- and L-band SAR
VerfasserIn H. Lievens, N. E. C. Verhoest, E. Keyser, H. Vernieuwe, P. Matgen, J. Álvarez-Mozos, B. Baets
Medientyp Artikel
Sprache Englisch
ISSN 1027-5606
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Erschienen In: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences ; 15, no. 1 ; Nr. 15, no. 1 (2011-01-17), S.151-162
Datensatznummer 250012592
Publikation (Nr.) Volltext-Dokument vorhandencopernicus.org/hess-15-151-2011.pdf
 
Zusammenfassung
Soil moisture retrieval from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) using state-of-the-art back\-scatter models is not fully operational at present, mainly due to difficulties involved in the parameterisation of soil surface roughness. Recently, increasing interest has been drawn to the use of calibrated or effective roughness parameters, as they circumvent issues known to the parameterisation of field-measured roughness. This paper analyses effective roughness parameters derived from C- and L-band SAR observations over a large number of agricultural seedbed sites in Europe. It shows that param\-eters may largely differ between SAR acquisitions, as they are related to the observed backscatter coefficients and variations in the local incidence angle. Therefore, a statistical model is developed that allows for estimating effective roughness parameters from microwave backscatter observations. Subsequently, these parameters can be propagated through the Integral Equation Model (IEM) for soil moisture retrieval. It is shown that fairly accurate soil moisture results are obtained both at C- and L-band, with an RMSE ranging between 4 vol% and 6.5 vol%.
 
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