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PolInSAR Campaigns Location: Red Hall Session Chair: Jean-Francois Nouvel, ONERA Session Chair: Marc Simard, Jet propulsion Laboratory | |
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9:00am - 9:20am
AGRIROSE-L AIRBORNE SAR EXPERIMENT FOR LAND COVER, VEGETATION PARAMETERS AND SOIL MOISTURE 1: DLR/ETH Zürich, Germany; 2: DLR, Microwaves and Radar Institute, Germany; 3: ETH Zurich, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Switzerland; 4: DLR, Method of Remote Sensing Institute, Germany; 5: LMU, Department für Geographie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München,; 6: GFZ, Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics, German Research Center for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany; 7: Czech Globe, Global Change Research Institute, Czech Republic; 8: ESA-ESTEC – Earth Observation Campaigns Section, Netherlands The AGRIROSE-L campaign coordinated and conducted by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) was conducted in cooperation with the LMU, GFZ and CzechGlobe over an agricultural area in southern Germany called Puch. The campaign's primary goal is to provide calibration and validation data to support future Earth observation missions, specifically ROSE-L and CHIME, with a focus on improving the monitoring of soil moisture and health, crop growth, and other agricultural parameters from space. The data collected is crucial for developing and testing algorithms for sustainable agriculture. For this the DLR’s F-SAR system recorded a globally unique dataset across four different frequency ranges (the X, C, S and L bands). In total, the radar team carried out 23 measurement flights between April and July covering the whole agricultural vegetation season. On selected days, the flights took place in the morning, at midday and in the evening to record any daily changes in the soil and vegetation. The data was collected using innovative imaging techniques such as polarimetry, interferometry and tomography. Experienced DLR test pilots flew specified paths with metre-level precision, supported by the satellite-based navigation system integrated into the F-SAR. Parallel to each flight, a team from LMU collected ground measurements of soil and vegetation parameters, such as soil moisture, surface roughness, plant water content and plant biomass. In addition, four times also the DLR’s hyperspectral sensor HySpecs was flown over the same area and one-time CzechGlobes hyperspectral sensor acquired data. In this research work the campaign, its collected data and the first performance analysis are presented. | |
