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Assessing the sensitivity of multi-frequency passive microwave vegetation optical depth to vegetation properties
Luisa Schmidt
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute of
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Technische Universität Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany
Matthias Forkel
Institute of
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Technische Universität Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany
Ruxandra-Maria Zotta
Department of Geodesy and
Geoinformation, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
Samuel Scherrer
Department of Geodesy and
Geoinformation, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
Wouter A. Dorigo
Department of Geodesy and
Geoinformation, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
Alexander Kuhn-Régnier
Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society, London, SW7
2AZ, UK
Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
Robin van der Schalie
Planet, Wilhelminastraat 43A, 2011 VK Haarlem, the Netherlands
Marta Yebra
Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National
University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
School of Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601,
Australia
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Vegetation attenuates natural microwave emissions from the land surface. The strength of this attenuation is quantified as the vegetation optical depth (VOD) parameter and is influenced by the vegetation mass, structure, water content, and observation wavelength. Here we model the VOD signal as a multi-variate function of several descriptive vegetation variables. The results help in understanding the effects of ecosystem properties on VOD.
Vegetation attenuates natural microwave emissions from the land surface. The strength of this...
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