Monitoring Canopy Moisture Using an Inversion Algorithm Applied to SAR Data from Boreas

Abstract

During several intensive field campaigns in 1993 & 1994, the JPL airborne synthetic aperture radar obtained multifrequency polarimetric radar data over various areas in the Canadian boreal forest designated as primary BOREAS study sites. These were part of a major remote sensing effort geared toward studying the interaction of the forest biome and the atmosphere to identify their role in global change.