Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Land--Atmosphere Interactions

by Pampaloni,; Pampaloni

• ISBN13: 9789067641883
• ISBN10: 906764188X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1995-11-01
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

Recent advances in theory and observations using passive microwave remote sensing have hightlighted the potential of spaceborne sensors for contributing to the required land surface measurements of soils, vegetation, snow cover and precipitation. Furthermore, the spatial resolution of passive microwave observations matches the special scales of large-scale models of land-atmosphere interactions both for data assimilation and validation. In order to stimulate and focus this research a workshop, sponsored by ESA and NASA, was organized to review the state-of-the-art in microwave radiometry related to land applications and to exchange ideas leading into new directions for future research. This volume contains the refereed papers from the aforementioned ESA/NASA workshop, which are arranged by topic, as well as the (edited) working group reports.

Table of Contents

Preface
List of Authors
List of Reviewers
Subject index
Large-scale land-atmosphere models and data needs	p. 3
Mesoscale land-atmosphere models and usefulness of microwave remote-sensing data	p. 17
Snow cover and snow mass estimates from remote sensing, climatology and the United Kingdom Meteorological Office General Circulation Model	p. 55
Soil moisture estimation: comparisons between hydrologic model estimates and remotely sensed estimates	p. 77
Sensitivity of active and passive microwave sensors to land parameters	p. 95
Theory of microwave scattering from vegetation based on the collective scattering effects of discrete scatterers	p. 117
Synergism of optical and microwave observations for land surface studies	p. 155
Radiometry at infrared and microwave frequencies	p. 193
Synergism of active and passive microwave data for estimating bare soil surface moisture	p. 205
Intercomparison of snow retrieval algorithms by means of spaceborne microwave radiometry	p. 227
Canadian development and use of snow cover information from passive microwave satellite data	p. 245
Application of SSM/I data for snow cover and climate research	p. 263
Size parameters of snow grains in scattering and emission models	p. 273
Monitoring snow cover on the Tibetan Plateau using passive microwave satellite data	p. 285
Passive microwave remote sensing of snow: volume scattering in snow and parametric inversion of snow parameters with an artificial neural network	p. 295
Vegetation models and observations: A review	p. 317
Progress in multi-frequency radiometry of natural objects	p. 345
Microwave emission from vegetation	p. 357
Canopy opacity models	p. 375
Modeling microwave emission from vegetation-covered surfaces: a parametric analysis	p. 389
Retrieval of geophysical parameters from multifrequency passive microwave measurements over a soybean canopy	p. 403
Passive microwave radiation from soil: examples of emission models and observations	p. 423
Estimation of soil moisture profiles and root zone moisture content by means of microwave radiometry and a priori information	p. 461
Soil moisture estimation from multifrequency microwave radiometer data based on statistical inversion technique	p. 475
Retrieval of soil moisture profile by combined remote sensing and modeling	p. 485
Identification of snowcover using SSM/I measurements	p. 499
Surface temperature estimation over land using satellite microwave radiometry	p. 509
Evaporation monitoring over land surface using microwave radiometry	p. 531
A model for the radiobrightness of Northern Prairie	p. 551
Overland precipitation	p. 571
Theoretical foundations and verification of a multispectral, inversion-type microwave precipitation profile retrieval algorithm	p. 599
Radiometric correction for atmospheric effects in surface sensing from aircraft and satellites	p. 623
The design of the ESA Multifrequency Imaging Microwave Radiometer (MIMR)	p. 637
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