The sarsense campaign: Air‐ and space‐borne c‐ and l‐band sar for the analysis of soil and plant parameters in agriculture

David Mengen; Carsten Montzka; Thomas Jagdhuber; Anke Fluhrer; Cosimo Brogi; Stephani Baum; Dirk Schüttemeyer; Bagher Bayat; Heye Bogena; Alex Coccia; Gerard Masalias; Verena Trinkel; Jannis Jakobi; François Jonard; Yueling Ma; Francesco Mattia; Davide Palmisano; Uwe Rascher; Giuseppe Satalino; Maike Schumacher; Christian Koyama; Marius Schmidt; Harry Vereecken

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The sarsense campaign: Air‐ and space‐borne c‐ and l‐band sar for the analysis of soil and plant parameters in agriculture

David Mengen^*, Carsten Montzka, Thomas Jagdhuber, Anke Fluhrer, Cosimo Brogi, Stephani Baum, Dirk Schüttemeyer, Bagher Bayat, Heye Bogena, Alex Coccia, Gerard Masalias, Verena Trinkel, Jannis Jakobi, François Jonard, Yueling Ma, Francesco Mattia, Davide Palmisano, Uwe Rascher, Giuseppe Satalino, Maike SchumacherChristian Koyama, Marius Schmidt, Harry Vereecken

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With the upcoming L‐band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite mission Radar Ob-serving System for Europe L‐band SAR (ROSE‐L) and its integration into existing C‐band satellite missions such as Sentinel‐1, multi‐frequency SAR observations with high temporal and spatial resolution will become available. The SARSense campaign was conducted between June and August 2019 to investigate the potential for estimating soil and plant parameters at the agricultural test site in Selhausen (Germany). It included C‐ and L‐band air‐ and space‐borne observations accompanied by extensive in situ soil and plant sampling as well as unmanned aerial system (UAS) based multi-spectral and thermal infrared measurements. In this regard, we introduce a new publicly available SAR data set and present the first analysis of C‐ and L‐band co‐ and cross‐polarized backscattering signals regarding their sensitivity to soil and plant parameters. Results indicate that a multi‐fre-quency approach is relevant to disentangle soil and plant contributions to the SAR signal and to identify specific scattering mechanisms associated with the characteristics of different crop type, especially for root crops and cereals.

Original language	English
Article number	825
Journal	Remote Sensing
Volume	13
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	1-28
Number of pages	28
ISSN	2072-4292
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13040825
Publication status	Published - 2 Feb 2021

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Keywords

Airborne campaign
C‐band
L‐band
Plant parameters
ROSE‐L
SAR
Soil moisture

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Mengen, D., Montzka, C., Jagdhuber, T., Fluhrer, A., Brogi, C., Baum, S., Schüttemeyer, D., Bayat, B., Bogena, H., Coccia, A., Masalias, G., Trinkel, V., Jakobi, J., Jonard, F., Ma, Y., Mattia, F., Palmisano, D., Rascher, U., Satalino, G., ... Vereecken, H. (2021). The sarsense campaign: Air‐ and space‐borne c‐ and l‐band sar for the analysis of soil and plant parameters in agriculture. Remote Sensing, 13(4), 1-28. Article 825. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13040825

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The sarsense campaign: Air‐ and space‐borne c‐ and l‐band sar for the analysis of soil and plant parameters in agriculture

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