Hydrosoil, soil moisture and vegetation parameters retrieval with a C-Band GB-SAR: Campaign implementation and first results

Abstract

HydroSoil is a measurement campaign, funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), where the temporal evolutions of two crops, barley and corn, have been continuously monitored during the whole crop period by means of a C-band Fully Polarimetric C-band Ground-Based Synthetic Aperture Radar (GB-SAR). SAR data has been collected together with ancillary data, and both are being processed to demonstrate the retrieval of soil moisture and vegetation parameters in an agricultural field under controlled conditions, to simulate the frequent acquisitions of GeoSAR missions.This work was funded by the European Space Agency (ESA Contract No. 4000132509/20/NL/FF/ab with UPC) and supported by the Spanish MCYT funds Unidad de Excelencia Maria de Maeztu MDM-2016-0600 and under project TEC2017-85244-C2-2-P. Special thanks to the Barcelona School of Agri-Food and Biosystems Engineering (EEABB) for making possible the radar deployment and the use of the experimental field.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft