Journal
IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS
Volume 10, Issue 4, Pages 731-735Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2012.2220333
Keywords
Bare agricultural soils; multifrequency polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data; soil moisture; surface roughness
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- National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture (Irstea)
- French Aerospace Research Centre (ONERA)
- Seventh Framework programme Climate Induced Changes on the Hydrology of Mediterranean Basins (CLIMB) Project
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The potential of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar data for the soil surface characterization of bare agricultural soils was investigated by using air- and spaceborne data acquired by Radar Aeroporte Multi-Spectral d'Etude des Signatures (RAMSES), Systeme Experimental de Teledetection Hyperfrequence Imageur (SETHI), and RADARSAT-2 sensors over several study sites in France. Fully polarimetric data at ultrahigh frequency, X-, C-, L-, and P-bands were compared. The results show that the main polarimetric parameters studied (entropy, a angle, and anisotropy) are not very sensitive to the variation of the soil surface parameters. Low correlations are observed between the polarimetric and soil parameters (moisture content and surface roughness). Thus, the polarimetric parameters are not very relevant to the characterization of the soil surface over bare agricultural areas.
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