Large-scale soil moisture mapping in western Africa using the ERS scatterometer

被引：85

作者：

Wagner, W ^{[1
]}

Scipal, K

机构：

[1] Vienna Univ Technol, Inst Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing, Vienna, Austria

[2] German Aerosp Res Estab, DLR, Wessling, Germany

来源：

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING | 2000年 / 38卷 / 04期

关键词：

Africa; drought; ERS scatterometer; soil moisture;

D O I：

10.1109/36.851761

中图分类号：

P3 [地球物理学]; P59 [地球化学];

学科分类号：

0708 ; 070902 ;

摘要：

Water is a critical resource in western Africa, and droughts are a serious threat to the population and the environment. In this paper, a technique to retrieve soil moisture from ERS scatterometer data is applied over a large region covering southern Mall and Burkina Faso. How the method accounts for the wide range of climatic and physiographic conditions encountered in the study area is discussed. An analysis of monthly soil moisture maps covering six years of data shows that the climatic conditions are well reflected in the remotely sensed data.

引用

页码：1777 / 1782

页数：6

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