Conference paper
Radiobrightness validation on different spatial scales during the SMOS validation campaign 2010 in the Rur catchment, germany
ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission has been launched in November 2009 and delivers now brightness temperature and soil moisture products over terrestrial areas on a regular three day basis. In 2010 several airborne campaigns were conducted to validate the SMOS products with microwave emission radiometers at L-band (1.4 GHz).
In this paper we present the activities performed in the Rur and Erft catchment, which is situated in the very west of Germany close to the borders to Belgium and The Netherlands. Measurements of the L-band sensors EMIRAD and HUT-2D on board a Skyvan aircraft as well as ground- based mobile measurements with the JULBARA radiometer mounted on a truck are analyzed in a qualitative comparison for different crop stands.
These data can be used for validation of the SMOS sensor by giving valuable information about parameters for the radiative transfer modeling.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | IEEE |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Pages: | 3760-3763 |
| Proceedings: | 2011 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium |
| ISBN: | 145771003X , 145771003x , 1457710048 , 1457710056 , 9781457710032 , 9781457710049 and 9781457710056 |
| ISSN: | 21537003 and 21536996 |
| Types: | Conference paper |
| DOI: | 10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6050043 |
| ORCIDs: | Balling, J. E. |
AD 2010 Agriculture Belgium EMIRAD L-band sensor ESA SMOS mission Erft catchment Germany HUT-2D L-band sensor JULBARA radiometer L-band Radiometers Rur catchment SMOS sensor SMOS validation campaign Skyvan aircraft Temperature measurement The Netherlands brightness temperature crop stands ground-based mobile measurements microwave emission radiometers ocean salinity radiative transfer radiobrightness validation radiometer radiometry soil soil moisture
