Results of combining L- and C-band passive microwave airborne data over the Sahelian area

This study focuses on an area in the Sahelian zone, Niger, Western Africa, where the HAPEX-Sahel experiment took place in 1992. During the hydrologic atmospheric pilot experiment in the Sahel (HAPEX-Sahel), passive microwave data were acquired with airborne radiometer, the multifrequency (5 to 90 GH...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing 2000-07, Vol.38 (4), p.1997-2008
Main Authors: Magagi, R.D., Kerr, Y.H., Meunier, J.-C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acquisitions
Airborne sensing
Albedo
Applied geophysics
Biomass
Biomedical optical imaging
Clouds
Combining
Covering
Earth sciences
Earth, ocean, space
Exact sciences and technology
Indexes
Internal geophysics
L-band
Marketing
Meteorology
Microwave radiometry
Microwave sensors
Microwaves
Moisture content
Moisture measurement
Niger
Optical scattering
Optical sensors
Polarization
Remote sensing
Scattering
Sensors
Soil measurements
Soil moisture
Soils
Surficial geology
Vegetation
Water
Wavemeters
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Summary:This study focuses on an area in the Sahelian zone, Niger, Western Africa, where the HAPEX-Sahel experiment took place in 1992. During the hydrologic atmospheric pilot experiment in the Sahel (HAPEX-Sahel), passive microwave data were acquired with airborne radiometer, the multifrequency (5 to 90 GHz) and dual polarization sensor, PORTOS, and the four-beam sensor push broom microwave radiometer (PBMR), operating at 1.4 GHz in H-polarization. The aim of this investigation is to monitor soil moisture and vegetation parameters by combining L-band C-band passive microwave airborne measurements. Through the relationships between soil moisture measurements from the 2 cm and 0.5 cm top layers, soil moisture is estimated for PORTOS data using the estimated soil moisture along the transects covered by the PBMR flights. The simplified radiative transfer model is then used to extract the optical thickness and the single scattering albedo of vegetation at C-band, and to evaluate the vegetation effect on the estimated soil moisture at L-band. An attempt to relate the estimated optical thickness from PORTOS data to the measured vegetation biophysical parameters [water content, biomass, leaf area index (LAI)] is presented.
ISSN:0196-2892
1558-0644
DOI:10.1109/36.851781