Name
Title | ||
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Initial Evaluation of the First Chinese GNSS-R Mission BuFeng-1 A/B for Soil Moisture Estimation |
Abstract | ||
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As a pilot mission for the Chinese global navigation satellite system reflectometry (GNSS-R) constellation, the BuFeng-1 (BF-1) twin satellites A/B were launched on June 5th, 2019. Using three-month of sample data, this study presents the first evaluation of this mission for soil moisture (SM) estimations. The results show that the surface reflectivity (SR) derived from BF-1 bistatic radar cross section (BRCS) correlates well with the SM active passive (SMAP) SM (mean R = 0.85), and the resulting BF-1 SM shows good correlation with the SMAP SM [R = 0.94 and root mean square deviation (RMSD) = 0.029] and the in situ measurements (R = 0.77 and RMSD = 0.049). The evaluation provides supportive information for the production and release of the new version of BF-1 Level 1 data and for the development of new algorithms to retrieve SM using data of this mission. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2022 | 10.1109/LGRS.2021.3097003 | IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
Satellite broadcasting, Correlation, Estimation, Land surface, Satellites, Spaceborne radar, Soil moisture, BuFeng-1 (BF-1), cyclone global navigation satellite system (CYGNSS), global navigation satellite system-reflectometry (GNSS-R), soil moisture (SM) | Journal | 19 |
ISSN | Citations | PageRank |
1545-598X | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
0 | 12 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| W. Wan | 1 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Baojian Liu | 2 | 1 | 5.10 |
| Z. Guo | 3 | 0 | 0.34 |
| F. Lu | 4 | 0 | 0.34 |
| X. Niu | 5 | 0 | 0.34 |
| H. Li | 6 | 0 | 0.34 |
| R. Ji | 7 | 0 | 0.34 |
| J. Cheng | 8 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Cecilia Li-Tsang | 9 | 1 | 1.07 |
| Xiuwan Chen | 10 | 33 | 18.04 |
| Jun Yang | 11 | 6 | 3.59 |
| Z. Bai | 12 | 0 | 0.34 |