F16: Microwave Remote Sensing of Vegetation and Terrestrial Snow (3)

Friday, August 22  09:40-10:40,  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  F16.1   ESTIMATION OF VEGETATION OPTICAL DEPTH AND SINGLE SCATTERING ALBEDO USING MULTI-ANGULAR MICROWAVE VEGETATION INDICES (MVIS)

J. Shi

Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

10:00  F16.2   ESTIMATION OF THE RADIATIVE ENERGY TRANSFER PHASE FUNCTION FROM SIMPLIFIED FOLIAGE STRUCTURES

P. J. R. Co, J. -I. Takada

Department of International Development Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

10:20  F16.3   MULTIPLE SCATTERING EFFECTS WITH INCLUSION OF CYCLICAL TERMS

S. Tan¹, L. Tsang¹, S. -B. Kim²

¹University of Washington, Seattle, United States
²Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States