TY - GEN
T1 - Ground-based remote sensing of soil moisture using lower frequency microwave radiometers
AU - Boopathi, Nithyapriya
AU - Ye, Nan
AU - Wu, Xioling
AU - Walker, Jeffrey P.
AU - Rao, Y. S.
AU - Jackson, Thomas J.
AU - Kerr, Yann
AU - Kim, Edward
AU - McGrath, Andrew
AU - Yeo, In Young
PY - 2019/3
Y1 - 2019/3
N2 - The soil is the interface between the biology and geology forming the living skin of the earth, and the water in it keeps the earth alive. Timely information on soil moisture is useful to monitor and forecast agricultural droughts, wildfires, flood risk areas, landslides, etc., Soil moisture measurement using L-band radiometry is now widely accepted as the state-of-art remote sensing approach, and has been adopted by both the soil moisture dedicated satellite missions – Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) and Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP). P-band, which is a longer wavelength measurement, provides the potential to retrieve deeper soil moisture information and to do so more accurately due to reduced soil roughness and vegetation effects. There are very few works using P-band radiometer [1,2] conducted at the USDA / Beltsville Agricultural Research Centre employing truck-mounted L-, C- and P- band radiometers.
AB - The soil is the interface between the biology and geology forming the living skin of the earth, and the water in it keeps the earth alive. Timely information on soil moisture is useful to monitor and forecast agricultural droughts, wildfires, flood risk areas, landslides, etc., Soil moisture measurement using L-band radiometry is now widely accepted as the state-of-art remote sensing approach, and has been adopted by both the soil moisture dedicated satellite missions – Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) and Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP). P-band, which is a longer wavelength measurement, provides the potential to retrieve deeper soil moisture information and to do so more accurately due to reduced soil roughness and vegetation effects. There are very few works using P-band radiometer [1,2] conducted at the USDA / Beltsville Agricultural Research Centre employing truck-mounted L-, C- and P- band radiometers.
KW - Ground-Based Remote Sensing
KW - Soil Moisture
KW - Lower Frequency Microwave Radiometers
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85068604763&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738311
DO - 10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738311
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85068604763
T3 - 2019 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference, AP-RASC 2019
BT - 2019 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
CY - New Jersey, USA
T2 - 2019 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference, AP-RASC 2019
Y2 - 9 March 2019 through 15 March 2019
ER -