SMOS REFLEX 2003: L-Band Emissivity Characterization of Vineyards

The goal of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission over land is to infer surface soil moisture from multiangular L-band radiometric measurements. As the canopy affects the microwave emission of land, it is necessary to characterize different vegetation layers. This paper presents the Reference...

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Autores: Vall-Llossera Ferran, Mercedes Magdalena|||0000-0003-1357-7098, Camps Carmona, Adriano José|||0000-0002-9514-4992, Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi|||0000-0001-5598-7955, Torres Torres, Francisco|||0000-0003-1160-6350, Duffo Ubeda, Núria|||0000-0002-9398-3995, Monerris Belda, Alessandra, Sabia, Roberto, Selva Valero, Daniel, Antolín, Carmen, López Baeza, Ernesto, Ferrer, Joan Ferran, Saleh, Kauzar
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2005
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/1042
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/1042
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Microwave measurements
Radiometry
Vegetation mapping
hydrological techniques
microwave measurement
radiometry
soil
vegetation mapping
Microones -- Mesurament
Radiometria
Vegetació -- Cartografia
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Radiocomunicació i exploració electromagnètica::Circuits de microones, radiofreqüència i ones mil·limètriques
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Sumario:The goal of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission over land is to infer surface soil moisture from multiangular L-band radiometric measurements. As the canopy affects the microwave emission of land, it is necessary to characterize different vegetation layers. This paper presents the Reference Pixel L-Band Experiment (REFLEX), carried out in June-July 2003 at the Vale/spl grave/ncia Anchor Station, Spain, to study the effects of grapevines on the soil emission and on the soil moisture retrieval. A wide range of soil moisture (SM), from saturated to completely dry soil, was measured with the Universitat Polite/spl grave/cnica de Catalunya's L-band Automatic Radiometer (LAURA). Concurrently with the radiometric measurements, the gravimetric soil moisture, temperature, and roughness were measured, and the vines were fully characterized. The opacity and albedo of the vineyard have been estimated and found to be independent on the polarization. The /spl tau/--/spl omega/ model has been used to retrieve the SM and the vegetation parameters, obtaining a good accuracy for incidence angles up to 55/spl deg/. Algorithms with a three-parameter optimization (SM, albedo albedo, and opacity) exhibit a better performance than those with one-parameter optimization (SM).

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