Identification of Soil Freezing and Thawing States Using SAR Polarimetry at C-Band

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Thomas Jagdhuber, Julia Stockamp, Irena Hajnsek, Ralf Ludwig
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2014
• Subjects: soil freezing; soil thawing; SAR polarimetry; polarimetric eigen-based decomposition; RADARSAT-2; C-band; Science; Q; Sodankylä
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs6032008; https://doaj.org/article/201023a9644b4c9e82f28f78cc6a30a9

The monitoring of soil freezing and thawing states over large areas is very challenging on ground. In order to investigate the potential and the limitations of space-borne SAR polarimetry at C-band for soil state survey, analyses were conducted on an entire winter time series of fully polarimetric R...