Above-Ground Biomass Retrieval over Tropical Forests: A Novel GNSS-R Approach with CyGNSS
An assessment of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA's Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CyGNSS) mission for biomass studies is presented in this work on rain, coniferous, dry, and moist tropical forests. The main objective is to investigate the capability of Global...
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Above-Ground Biomass Retrieval over Tropical Forests: A Novel GNSS-R Approach with CyGNSSCarreno-Luengo, HLuzi, GCrosetto, MGNSS-RCyGNSSSMAPICESat-1tropical forestsAbove-Ground Biomass (AGB)Canopy Height (CH)biomass retrievalAn assessment of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA's Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CyGNSS) mission for biomass studies is presented in this work on rain, coniferous, dry, and moist tropical forests. The main objective is to investigate the capability of Global Navigation Satellite Systems Reflectometry (GNSS-R) for biomass retrieval over dense forest canopies from a space-borne platform. The potential advantage of CyGNSS, as compared to monostatic Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) missions, relies on the increasing signal attenuation by the vegetation cover, which gradually reduces the coherent scattering component sigma(coh,0). This term can only be collected in a bistatic radar geometry. This point motivates the study of the relationship between several observables derived from Delay Doppler Maps (DDMs) with Above-Ground Biomass (AGB). This assessment is performed at different elevation angles theta(e) as a function of Canopy Height (CH). The selected biomass products are obtained from data collected by the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) instrument on-board the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat-1). An analysis based on the first derivative of the experimentally derived polynomial fitting functions shows that the sensitivity requirements of the Trailing Edge TE and the reflectivity Gamma reduce with increasing biomass up to similar to 350 and similar to 250 ton/ha over the Congo and Amazon rainforests, respectively. The empirical relationship between TE and Gamma with AGB is further evaluated at optimum angular ranges using Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP)-derived Vegetation Optical Depth (VOD), and the Polarization Index (PI). Additionally, the potential influence of Soil Moisture Content (SMC) is investigated over forests with low AGB.MDPI Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute2020info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttps://cttc.fundanetsuite.com/Publicaciones/ProdCientif/PublicacionFrw.aspx?id=3129Remote SensingISSN: 20724292reponame:r-CTTC. Repositorio Institucional Producción Científica del Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)instname:Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)Inglésinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:cttc.fundanetsuite.com:p31292026-06-17T11:44:47Z |
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Above-Ground Biomass Retrieval over Tropical Forests: A Novel GNSS-R Approach with CyGNSS |
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Above-Ground Biomass Retrieval over Tropical Forests: A Novel GNSS-R Approach with CyGNSS |
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Above-Ground Biomass Retrieval over Tropical Forests: A Novel GNSS-R Approach with CyGNSS Carreno-Luengo, H GNSS-R CyGNSS SMAP ICESat-1 tropical forests Above-Ground Biomass (AGB) Canopy Height (CH) biomass retrieval |
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Above-Ground Biomass Retrieval over Tropical Forests: A Novel GNSS-R Approach with CyGNSS |
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Above-Ground Biomass Retrieval over Tropical Forests: A Novel GNSS-R Approach with CyGNSS |
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Above-Ground Biomass Retrieval over Tropical Forests: A Novel GNSS-R Approach with CyGNSS |
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Above-Ground Biomass Retrieval over Tropical Forests: A Novel GNSS-R Approach with CyGNSS |
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Above-Ground Biomass Retrieval over Tropical Forests: A Novel GNSS-R Approach with CyGNSS |
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Carreno-Luengo, H Luzi, G Crosetto, M |
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Carreno-Luengo, H |
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Carreno-Luengo, H Luzi, G Crosetto, M |
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Luzi, G Crosetto, M |
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GNSS-R CyGNSS SMAP ICESat-1 tropical forests Above-Ground Biomass (AGB) Canopy Height (CH) biomass retrieval |
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GNSS-R CyGNSS SMAP ICESat-1 tropical forests Above-Ground Biomass (AGB) Canopy Height (CH) biomass retrieval |
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An assessment of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA's Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CyGNSS) mission for biomass studies is presented in this work on rain, coniferous, dry, and moist tropical forests. The main objective is to investigate the capability of Global Navigation Satellite Systems Reflectometry (GNSS-R) for biomass retrieval over dense forest canopies from a space-borne platform. The potential advantage of CyGNSS, as compared to monostatic Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) missions, relies on the increasing signal attenuation by the vegetation cover, which gradually reduces the coherent scattering component sigma(coh,0). This term can only be collected in a bistatic radar geometry. This point motivates the study of the relationship between several observables derived from Delay Doppler Maps (DDMs) with Above-Ground Biomass (AGB). This assessment is performed at different elevation angles theta(e) as a function of Canopy Height (CH). The selected biomass products are obtained from data collected by the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) instrument on-board the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat-1). An analysis based on the first derivative of the experimentally derived polynomial fitting functions shows that the sensitivity requirements of the Trailing Edge TE and the reflectivity Gamma reduce with increasing biomass up to similar to 350 and similar to 250 ton/ha over the Congo and Amazon rainforests, respectively. The empirical relationship between TE and Gamma with AGB is further evaluated at optimum angular ranges using Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP)-derived Vegetation Optical Depth (VOD), and the Polarization Index (PI). Additionally, the potential influence of Soil Moisture Content (SMC) is investigated over forests with low AGB. |
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