SOIL MOISTURE MONITORING OF AGRICULTURAL FIELDS IN BURKINA FASO USING DUAL POLARIZED SENTINEL-1A DATA
Paper in proceeding, 2019
We investigated the correlation between backscatter and soil moisture considering precipitation and crop effects using dual polarized Sentinel-1A data. The analyzed data consist of a time-series of 38 Sentinel-1A GRD images acquired on a 12-days repeat cycle from July 2017 to October 2018 over Sapone in Burkina Faso. We show that the temporal change of backscatter corresponds to the soil moisture content rather than crops.
soil moisture content
synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
agriculture
radar scattering
Author
Y. Miura
Tohoku University
Leif Eriksson
Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Microwave and Optical Remote Sensing
M. Ostwald
University of Gothenburg
M. Karlson
Linköping University
H. R. Bazie
University of Ouagadougou
M. J. Soja
MJ Soja Consulting
J. Sanou
Institut de l'Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles (INERA)
J. Bayala
World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
H. Reese
University of Gothenburg
International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
7045-7048
978-1-5386-9154-0 (ISBN)
IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
Yokohama, Japan,
Yokohama, Japan,
Subject Categories
Soil Science
Agricultural Science
Geochemistry
DOI
10.1109/IGARSS.2019.8898897
ISBN
9781538691540