Temporal multiparameter airborne DLR E-SAR images for crop monitoring: summary of the CLEOPATRA campaign 1992

Christiane C. Schmullius; Juergen Nithack

doi:10.1117/12.264275

17 January 1997 Temporal multiparameter airborne DLR E-SAR images for crop monitoring: summary of the CLEOPATRA campaign 1992

Christiane C. Schmullius, Juergen Nithack

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Proceedings Volume 2959, Remote Sensing of Vegetation and Sea; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.264275
Event: Satellite Remote Sensing III, 1996, Taormina, Italy

Abstract

From May 11 to July 31, 1992 the Cloud Experiment OberPfaffenhofen And Transports took place as a field experimental contribution to the global energy and water cycle experiment. The DLR Institute of Radio Frequency Technology participated with its experimental SAR system E- SAR. Multitemporal X-, C- and L-band data from 8 dates and three ERS-1 images between May 20 and July 30, 1992 are analyzed in regard to the influence of changing plant backscatter constituents and to investigate the impact of increasing ground cover in the different wavelength on soil moisture mapping. Backscatter curves of four crops are shown, which indicate the possibility for crop monitoring and preferred times for crop classification. Detection of soil moisture changes is only possible with L-band and only under grain crops. Maximum likelihood and isocluster classifications were applied on several single- and multifrequency, mono- and multitemporal channel combinations. The overall classification accuracies were higher than with supervised methods. Maximum likelihood classification allowed identification of ten crop types with accuracies of up to 84 percent, when a temporal multifrequency data set was used.

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Christiane C. Schmullius and Juergen Nithack "Temporal multiparameter airborne DLR E-SAR images for crop monitoring: summary of the CLEOPATRA campaign 1992", Proc. SPIE 2959, Remote Sensing of Vegetation and Sea, (17 January 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.264275

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