F13: Microwave Remote Sensing of Vegetation and Terrestrial Snow (2)

Thursday, August 21  09:40-11:00,  Room #4

The use of microwave radiometers and radars to sense soil moisture, vegetation biomass and terrestrial snow characteristics are the subject matter of this session. Experimental activities concerning the observation of soil moisture, vegetation and snow from ground-based instruments, aircraft and satellites will be discussed. Passive and active sensing of terrestrial snow in open areas or forested regions are subjects of interest. Microwave models of emission and backscatter from soils covered by snow and/or vegetation using advanced radiative transfer models will be considered. Finally, retrieval of main parameters of soil, snow, and vegetation by using statistical inversion algorithms are of interest.

9:40  F13.1   MULTI-LAYER MODEL SIMULATIONS OF BACKSCATTERING AND EMISSION FROM SNOW COVERED SOILS

S. Paloscia¹, P. Pampaloni¹, E. Santi¹, S. Pettinato¹, X. Chuan², M. Brogioni¹

¹IFAC/CNR, FIRENZE, Italy
²RADI-CAS, Beijing, China

10:00  F13.2   BICONTINUOUS DMRT MODEL EXTRACTED FROM MULTI-SIZE QCA WITH APPLICATION TO TERRESTRIAL SNOWPACK

X. Xu¹, L. Tsang², W. Chang², S. Yueh¹

¹JPL, CA, United States
²University of Washinton, WA, USA

10:20  F13.3   SCATTERING AND EMISSIVITIES OF OBLIQUE INCIDENT WAVES FROM DOUBLE-LAYERED RANDOM ROUGH SURFACES IN REMOTE SENSING OF SNOW

P. Xu¹, J. -C. Shi²

¹School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, wuhan, China
²Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

10:40  F13.4   MONITORING SNOW PARAMETERS IN BOREAL FOREST USING MULTI-FREQUENCY SAR DATA

G. Macelloni¹, M. Brogioni¹, F. Montomoli¹, S. Paloscia¹, J. Lemmetyinen², J. Pulliainen², H. Rott³

¹IFAC-CNR, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
²FMI, Helsinki, Finland
³Enveo, Innsbruck, Austria