Title
Spatial Correlation Patterns of L-Band Microwave Brightness Temperature.
Abstract
Analysis is based on ESTAR (Electronically Scanned Thinned Array Radiometer) surface brightness temperature data collected during the 1997 Southern Great Plains Hydrology Experiment. The ESTAR is a passive microwave radiometer operating at a center frequency of 1.4GHz. There 16 brightness temperature images collected at 800-m resolution between Julian day 169 and Julian day 199. In our experiment the data located within the Little Washita watershed was extracted to carry out the analysis. Because the spatial pattern of the surface soil moisture is determined by the land surface heterogeneity and precipitation events. So we select two data sets from drying period and wetting period, respectively. The data of July 3 represents the case where the spatial pattern of soil moisture is determined mainly by soil texture and vegetation distribution. The data of July 12 represents the case where the spatial pattern of soil moisture is influenced by both the precipitation and land surface features.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779538
IGARSS
Keywords
Field
DocType
autocorrelation,soil texture,spatial pattern,data assimilation,radiometry,brightness temperature,spatial correlation,data collection,vegetation,pattern analysis,l band,surface brightness,soil moisture,correlation,geostatistics,remote monitoring
Spatial analysis,Meteorology,Variogram,Spatial correlation,Brightness temperature,Computer science,Remote sensing,Data assimilation,Geostatistics,Radiance,Covariance
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
3
1
null
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xujun Han184.08
Xin Li27916.63
Rui Jin39016.41
Shuguo Wang417024.86