passive microwave
Recent changes in spring snowmelt timing in the Yukon River basin detected by passive microwave satellite data
... based passive microwave melt detection approach was pre- viously applied successfully over a wide spatial domain in the pan-Arctic study by Tedesco et ...the passive microwave derived melt ...
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A simple parameterisation for retrieving soil moisture from passive microwave data
... of microwave emission from the land surface, for example, MICRO-SWEAT (Burke et ...relates microwave brightness temperature to soil moisture for a bare soil (Simmonds and Burke, 1998; Burke and Simmonds, ...
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Detecting cloud contamination in passive microwave satellite measurements over land
... the passive mi- crowave observations is proportional to the surface emissiv- ity that changes from ∼ ...ocean, passive microwaves have been extensively used to quantify the cloud liquid water and rain ...
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Towards variational retrieval of warm rain from passive microwave observations
... It is concluded that a variational retrieval can add infor- mation relative to operational precipitation products, albeit in limited circumstances. Treatment of correlated forward model errors, especially those caused by ...
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The impact of land surface temperature on soil moisture anomaly detection from passive microwave observations
... years passive microwave observations have been used to retrieve soil moisture from the Earth’s ...and Passive (SMAP) satellite missions observe the Earth’s surface in the L-band ...Advanced ...
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Space based passive microwave soil moisture retrievals and the correction for a dynamic open water fraction
... strong passive microwave signature and therefore can produce positive biases in top soil moisture content estimated from passive microwave remote ...AMSR-E passive microwave ...
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The 2018 North Greenland polynya observed by a newly introduced merged optical and passive microwave sea-ice concentration dataset
... of passive microwave and thermal infrared data is not expected to work in summer as both of them can not distinguish melt ponds from open wa- ter and thus underestimate the summer ...
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Soil moisture active and passive microwave products: intercomparison and evaluation over a Sahelian site
... sive microwave soil moisture products over Sahel shows that both active and passive low frequency remote sensing ap- proaches are sensitive to surface soil moisture ...C-band passive microwave ...
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The new Passive microwave Neural network Precipitation Retrieval (PNPR) algorithm for the cross-track scanning ATMS radiometer: description and verification study over Europe and Africa using GPM and TRMM spaceborne radars
... the Passive microwave Neural network Precipi- tation Retrieval (PNPR v2), an algorithm based on a neural network approach, designed to retrieve the instantaneous sur- face precipitation rate using the ...
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Using vegetation indices for soil moisture retrievals from passive microwave radiometry
... wavelength) passive microwave emission of land surfaces is influenced strongly by both surface soil moisture and the nature of the overlying vegetation (Schmugge, ...the microwave emission, is ...
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Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of North Carolina Soil Moisture for Hydrologic Assessment and Forecasting.
... AMSR-E and ECONet are sensed at different soil depths which will likely introduce error into their correlation. Previous research indicates that the sensing depth of a passive microwave is one tenth its ...
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CDRD and PNPR satellite passive microwave precipitation retrieval algorithms: EuroTRMM/EURAINSAT origins and H-SAF operations
... Since the introduction of the Satellite Application Facility on Support to Operational Hydrology and Water Manage- ment (H-SAF) in 2005 (see Bizzarri et al., 2005; Mugnai et al., 2006), the Italian National Research ...
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Error characterisation of global active and passive microwave soil moisture datasets
... and passive datasets can be as- cribed to the observation principle (active versus passive) and how much depends on the retrieval method ...band passive microwave observations over moderate to ...
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Snowmelt onset over Arctic sea ice from passive microwave satellite data: 1979–2012
... Sensor Microwave Imager and Sounder) Brightness Temperatures, Version 3 (V3) data set that is now available for download from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) (Anderson et ...from passive ...
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SMRT: an active–passive microwave radiative transfer model for snow with multiple microstructure and scattering formulations (v1.0)
... for passive microwave remote sensing, including HUT (Lemmetyinen et ...active microwave observations include only single scatter- ing mechanisms (Bingham and Drinkwater, 2000; Flach et ...
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A multi sensor data driven methodology for all sky passive microwave inundation retrieval
... Flood mapping from space was first accomplished using visible to near-infrared (VNIR) observations (0.4–1.1 µm), by the multispectral scanner system (MSS) sensors on board Landsat-1 (Rango and Anderson, 1974; Rango and ...
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Application of a plane stratified emission model to predict the effects of vegetation in passive microwave radiometry
... In general, a numerical model might have n parameters (in this case, the parameters describing the dielectric profile of the vegetation) to be calibrated using m observations (in this case, the time series of ...
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Monitoring soil wetness variations by means of satellite passive microwave observations: the HYDROPTIMET study cases
... Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit is a new gener- ation microwave sensor that consists of two modules: the AMSU-A module includes 15 channels in the 23-89 GHz range with a spatial resolution of 48 km at ...
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A Comparative Evaluation of Snow Depth and Snow Water Equivalent Using Empirical Algorithms and Multivariate regressions
... borne passive microwave (PM) data are commonly utilized in order to retrieve useful snow parameters ...forest microwave radiative transfer models and the snow properties measured in field ...
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Towards an integrated soil moisture drought monitor for East Africa
... from passive microwave (AMSR-E; LPRM), thermal infrared (ALEXI), and model- based (Noah) methods were cross-compared and merged into a single consensus drought monitor product using triple collocation ...
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