Integration of radar and radiometric data from SMAP and Sentinel-1 sensors for soil moisture and vegetation monitoring (Conference Presentation)

Simonetta Paloscia; Emanuele Santi; Simone Pettinato; Dara Entekhabi

doi:10.1117/12.2245314

8 December 2016 Integration of radar and radiometric data from SMAP and Sentinel-1 sensors for soil moisture and vegetation monitoring (Conference Presentation)

Simonetta Paloscia, Emanuele Santi, Simone Pettinato, Dara Entekhabi

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Proceedings Volume 10003, SAR Image Analysis, Modeling, and Techniques XVI; 100030E (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2245314
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

This work has been focused on the integration of microwave data coming from different sensors (SMAP, Sentinel-1, AMSR2), in order to obtain an improved estimation of hydrological parameters and in particular of the Soil Moisture (SMC). The failure of radar sensor in SMAP satellite induced to look for other available microwave frequencies, both from active (e.g. Sentinel-1, C band) and passive sensors (e.g. AMSR2, from C to Ka bands). The contribution of higher frequencies, which are more suitable for monitoring vegetation and other surface features, has been evaluated for compensating the vegetation and roughness effects on the SM retrieval accuracy. In particular, the contribution of C band SAR from Sentinel-1 and of the multi-frequency AMSR2 radiometer (C to Ka bands) have been considered. Moreover, a disaggregation technique, based on the Smoothing filter based intensity modulation (SFIM), enabled achieving a more suitable ground resolution for comparing SAR and radiometric data. Disaggregated microwave data were used as inputs of a retrieval algorithm based on Artificial Neural Network (ANN), able to exploit the synergy between active and passive acquisitions. The algorithm was defined basing on the data available from the SMEX02 and SMAPVEX12 campaigns, and on data simulated by electromagnetic forward models. The algorithm validation on these datasets returned encouraging results, while the disaggregation technique enabled adapting the algorithm to work with Sentinel, SMAP and AMSR2 synergic acquisitions

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Simonetta Paloscia, Emanuele Santi, Simone Pettinato, and Dara Entekhabi "Integration of radar and radiometric data from SMAP and Sentinel-1 sensors for soil moisture and vegetation monitoring (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10003, SAR Image Analysis, Modeling, and Techniques XVI, 100030E (8 December 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2245314

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Sensors

Vegetation

Data modeling

Microwave radiation

Radar

Soil science

Synthetic aperture radar

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