THE POTENTIAL OF MULTI-TEMPORAL COSMO-SKYMED SAR IMAGES IN MONITORING SOIL AND VEGETATION
Conference Paper
Publication Date:
2011
abstract:
The results of an experiment carried out in Italy for exploiting the capabilities of X-band SAR in the monitoring of soil and vegetation characteristics are summarized in this paper. Data from X-band Cosmo-Skymed mission have been collected in two agricultural areas and compared with C-band data of ENVISAT/ASAR and with ground truth measurements. In general, a certain sensitivity to vegetation biomass and to moisture of bare soils has been found.
Iris type:
04.01 Contributo in Atti di convegno
Keywords:
COSMO-Skymed; X-band backscattering; vegetation biomass; soil moisture
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