Session Chairs: | Simonetta Paloscia, Jianchen Shi |
The use of microwave radiometers and radars to sense soil moisture, vegetation biomass and terrestrial snow characteristics are the subject matter of this session. Experimental activities concerning the observation of soil moisture, vegetation and snow from ground-based instruments, aircraft and satellites will be discussed. Passive and active sensing of terrestrial snow in open areas or forested regions are subjects of interest. Microwave models of emission and backscatter from soils covered by snow and/or vegetation using advanced radiative transfer models will be considered. Finally, retrieval of main parameters of soil, snow, and vegetation by using statistical inversion algorithms are of interest.
9:40 F13.1 MULTI-LAYER MODEL SIMULATIONS OF BACKSCATTERING AND EMISSION FROM SNOW COVERED SOILS
S. Paloscia1, P. Pampaloni1, E. Santi1, S. Pettinato1, X. Chuan2, M. Brogioni1
1IFAC/CNR, FIRENZE, Italy
2RADI-CAS, Beijing, China
10:00 F13.2 BICONTINUOUS DMRT MODEL EXTRACTED FROM MULTI-SIZE QCA WITH APPLICATION TO TERRESTRIAL SNOWPACK
X. Xu1, L. Tsang2, W. Chang2, S. Yueh1
1JPL, CA, United States
2University of Washinton, WA, USA
10:20 F13.3 SCATTERING AND EMISSIVITIES OF OBLIQUE INCIDENT WAVES FROM DOUBLE-LAYERED RANDOM ROUGH SURFACES IN REMOTE SENSING OF SNOW
P. Xu1, J. -C. Shi2
1School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, wuhan, China
2Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
10:40 F13.4 MONITORING SNOW PARAMETERS IN BOREAL FOREST USING MULTI-FREQUENCY SAR DATA
G. Macelloni1, M. Brogioni1, F. Montomoli1, S. Paloscia1, J. Lemmetyinen2, J. Pulliainen2, H. Rott3
1IFAC-CNR, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
2FMI, Helsinki, Finland
3Enveo, Innsbruck, Austria