Characterizing the dependence of vegetation model parameters on crop structure, incidence angle, and polarization at L-band |
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Authors: | Wigneron J-P Parde M Waldteufel P Chanzy A Kerr Y Schmidl S Skou N |
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Affiliation: | INRA-Bioclimatologie, Villenave D'Ornon, France; |
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Abstract: | To retrieve soil moisture over vegetation-covered areas from microwave radiometry, it is necessary to account for vegetation effects. At L-band, many retrieval approaches are based on a simple model that relies on two vegetation parameters: the optical depth (/spl tau/) and the single-scattering albedo (/spl omega/). When the retrievals are based on multiconfiguration measurements, it is necessary to take into account the dependence of /spl tau/ and /spl omega/ on the system configuration, in terms of incidence angle and polarization. In this paper, this dependence was investigated for several crop types (corn, soybean, wheat, grass, and alfalfa) based on L-band experimental datasets. The results should be useful for developing more accurate forward modeling and retrieval methods over mixed pixels including a variety of vegetation types. |
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