A combined passive/active microwave remote sensing approach for surface variable retrieval using Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission observations

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 112-125

  Lee, Khil Ha ^a   Anagnostou, Emmanouil N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Combined active and passive microwave; LAI; Soil moisture; TRMM

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; IMAGE SENSORS; MOISTURE; RADAR; RADIOMETERS; RAIN; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SOILS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VEGETATION; WATER;

SOIL MOISTURE MEASUREMENTS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

REMOTE SENSING;

BACKSCATTER; EMISSION; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 3242668799     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2004.05.003     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Anagnostou E.N., Krajewski W.F., Smith J. Uncertainty quantification of mean-areal radar-rainfall estimates. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 16(2):1999;206-215
2. Attema E.P.W., Ulaby F.T. Vegetation modeled as a water cloud. Radio Science. 13(2):1978;357-364
3. Bindlish R., Barros A.P. Subpixel variability of remotely sensed soil moisture: An inter-comparison study of SAR and ESTAR. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 40(2):2002;326-337
4. Bindlish R., Jackson T.J., Wood E., Gao H., Starks P., Bosch D., Lakshmi V. Soil moisture estimates from TRMM Microwave Imager observations over the Southern United States. Remote Sensing of Environment. 85:2003;507-515
5. Bonan G.B., Oleson K.W., Vertenstein M., Levis S., Zeng X.B., Dai Y.J., Dickinson R.E., Yang Z.L. The land surface climatology of the community land model coupled to the NCAR community climate model. Journal of Climate. 15(22):2002;3123-3149
6. Brock F.V., Crawford K.C., Elliot R.L., Cuperus G.W., Stadler S.J., Johnson H.L., Eilts M.D. The Oklahoma Mesonet: A technical overview. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 12(1):1995;5-19
7. Chauhan N.S. Moisture estimation under a vegetation cover: Combined active passive microwave remote sensing approach. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 18(5):1997;1079-1097
8. DeFries R.S., Hansen M.C., Townshend J.R.G. Continuous fields of vegetation characteristics: A linear mixture model applied to multi-year 8 km AVHRR data. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 21:2000;1389-1414
9. DeFries R.S., Hansen M.C., Twonshend J.R.G., Janetos A.C., Loveland T.R. A new global 1-km dataset of percentage tree cover derived from remote sensing. Global Change Biology. 6:2000;247-254
10. Dobson M.C., Ulaby F.T., Haliikainen M.T., El-Rayes M.A. Microwave behavior of wet soil: Dielectric mixing models. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 23:1985;35-46
11. Du Y., Ulaby F.T., Dobson M.C. Sensitivity to soil moisture by active and passive microwave sensors. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 38(1):2000;105-113
12. Duan Q.Y., Gupta V.K., Sorooshian S. Shuffled complex evolution approach for effective and efficient global minimization. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications. 76:1993;501-521
13. Elliot R.L., Brock F.V., Stone M.L., Harp S.L. Configuration decisions for an automated weather station network. Applied Engineering in Agriculture. 10(1):1994;45-51
14. Ferrazzoli P., Luzi G., Paloscia P., Schiavon G., Solimini D. Comparison between the microwave emissivity and backscattering coeffienct of crops. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 27:1989;772-778
15. Fulton R.A., Breidenbach J.P., Seo D.J., Miller D.A., O'Bannon T. The WSR-88D rainfall algorithm. Weather and Forecasting. 13(2):1998;377-395
16. Fung A.K., Eom H.J. A comparison between active and passive sensing of soil moisture from vegetated terrains. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. GE23:1985;768-775
17. Global Soil Data Task. (2000), Global soil data products CD-ROM (IGBP-DIS). International Geosphere-biosphere Programme-data and Information Available Services. (available at http://www.daac.ornl.gov).
18. Henderson F.M., Lewis A.J. Principles & Applications of Imaging Radar: Manual of Remote Sensing. vol. II:1998;John Wiley & Sons, New York
19. Iguchi T., Kozu T., Meneghini R., Awaka J., Okamoto K. Rain-profiling algorithm for TRMM precipitation radar. Journal of Applied Meteorology. 39:2000;2038-2052
20. Jackson T.J., Hsu A.Y. Soil moisture and TRMM microwave imager relationships in the southern great plains 1999 (SGP1999) experiment. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 39(8):2001;1632-1642
21. Jackson T.J., Schmugge T.J. Vegetation effects on the microwave emission of soils. Remote Sensing of Environment. 36:1991;203-212
22. Kerr Y.H., Waldteufel P., Wigneron J.P., Martinuzzi J.M., Font J.F., Berger M. Soil mosture retrieval from space: The soil moisture and ocean salinity (SMOS) mission. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 39:2001;1729-1735
23. Kummerow C., Barnes W., Kozu T., Shite J., Simpson J. The tropical rainfall measuring mission (TRMM) sensor package. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 15:1998;809-817
24. Lee K.H., Burke E.J., Shuttleworth W.J., Harlow R.C. Influence of vegetation on SMOS mission retrievals. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 6(2):2002;153-166
25. Le Vine D.M., Karam M.A. Dependence of attenuation in a vegetation canopy on frequency and plant water content. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 34:1996;1090-1096
26. Liao L., Meneghini R., Iguchi T. Comparisons of rain rate and reflectivity factor derived from the TRMM precipitation radar and the WSR-88D over the Melbourne Florida site. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 18:2001;1959-1974
27. Loveland T.R., Reed B.C., Brown J.F., Ohlen D.O., Zhu Z., Yang L., Merchant J.W. Development of a global land cover characteristics database and IGBP DISCover from 1 km AVHRR data. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 21:2000;1303-1330
28. Moran M.S., Vidal A., Troufleau D., Inoue Y., Mitchell T.A. Ku- and C-band SAR for discriminating agricultural crop and soil conditions. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 36(1):1998;265-272
29. Myneni R.B., Nemani R.R., Running S.W. Estimation of global leaf area index and absorbed par using radiative transfer models. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 35:1997;1380-1393
30. Njoku E.G., Wilson W.J., Yueh S.H., Rahmat-Samii Y. A large-antenna microwave radiometer-scatterometer concept for ocean salinity and soil moisture sensing. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 38(6):2000;2645-2655
31. Owe M., Jeu R.D., Walker J. A methodology for surface soil moisture and vegetation optical depth retrieval using the microwave polarization difference index. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 39:2001;1643-1654
32. Prevot L., Champion I., Guyot G. Estimating surface soil moisture and leaf area index of a wheat canopy using a dual-frequency (C and X bands) scatterometer. Remote Sensing of Environment. 46:1993;331-339
33. Ulaby F.T., Allen C.T., Eger G. III Relating the microwave backscattering coefficient to leaf area index. Remote Sensing of Environment. 14:1984;113-133
34. Ulaby, F. T., Moore, R. K., & Fung, A. K. (1986). Microwave remote sensing: Active and passive vol. 3, Artech House, 610 Washington St., Dedham, MA.
35. Van de Griend A.A., Owe M. Measurement and behavior of dual-polarization vegetation optical depth and single scattering albedo at 1.4 and 5 GHz microwave frequencies. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 34:1996;957-965
36. Wang J.R., Choudhury B.J. Remote sensing of soil moisture content over bare field at 1.4 GHz frequency. Journal of Geophysical Research. 86(c6):1981;5277-5282
37. Wigneron J.P., Calvet J.C., Kerr Y.H. Monitoring water interception by crop fields from passive microwave observations. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 80:1996;177-194
38. Wigneron J.P., Ferrazzoli P., Calvet J.C., Kerr Y., Bertuzzi P. A parametric study on passive and active microwave observations over a soybean crop. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 37(6):1999;2728-2733
39. Wigneron J.P., Waldteufel P., Chanzy A., Calvet J.C. Two-dimensional microwave interferometer retrieval capabilities over land surfaces (SMOS Mission). Remote Sensing of Environment. 73:2000;270-282
40. Wilson W.J., Yueh S.H., Dinardo S.J., Chazanoff S.L., Kitiyakara A., Li F.K., Rahmat-Samii Y. Passive active L- and S-band (PALS) microwave sensor for ocean salinity and soil moisture measurements. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 39(5):2001;1039-1048