[en] In summer 2019 the SARSense campaign was held in Jülich, Germany, to provide insights into the potentials and specifications of the ESA Copernicus candidate mission ROSE-L (Radar Observation System for Europe). ROSE-L will consist of two satellites that carry a polarimetric L-band SAR. Since the L-band signal can penetrate through many natural materials such as vegetation, dry snow and ice, the mission will provide additional information that cannot be gathered by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 C-band SAR mission. The overall objective of the SARSense 2019 campaign is to analyze the mission design concerning its potential for agricultural monitoring services including target applications such as soil moisture monitoring, irrigation management, crop type discrimination, food security and precision farming. The SARSense in situ measurements of soil moisture, soil temperature, vegetation properties, UAS-based multispectral and thermal mapping, as well as the airborne SAR observations are presented as well as strategies for soil moisture retrieval and first analysis.
Montzka, Carsten; Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences: Agrosphere (IBG-3), Jülich, Germany
Brogi, Cosimo; Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences: Agrosphere (IBG-3), Jülich, Germany
Mengen, David; Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences: Agrosphere (IBG-3), Jülich, Germany
Matveeva, Maria; Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences: Agrosphere (IBG-3), Jülich, Germany
Baum, Stephani; Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences: Agrosphere (IBG-3), Jülich, Germany
Schuttemeyer, Dirk; Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences: Agrosphere (IBG-3), Jülich, Germany
Bayat, Bagher; Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences: Agrosphere (IBG-3), Jülich, Germany
Bogena, Heye; Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences: Agrosphere (IBG-3), Jülich, Germany
Coccia, Alex; Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences: Agrosphere (IBG-3), Jülich, Germany
Masalias, Gerard; Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences: Agrosphere (IBG-3), Jülich, Germany
Graf, Verena; Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences: Agrosphere (IBG-3), Jülich, Germany
Jakobi, Jannis; Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences: Agrosphere (IBG-3), Jülich, Germany
Jonard, François ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de géographie ; Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences: Agrosphere (IBG-3), Jülich, Germany
Ma, Yueling; Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences: Agrosphere (IBG-3), Jülich, Germany
Mattia, Francesco; Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences: Agrosphere (IBG-3), Jülich, Germany
Palmisano, Davide; Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences: Agrosphere (IBG-3), Jülich, Germany
Rascher, Uwe; Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences: Agrosphere (IBG-3), Jülich, Germany
Satalino, Guiseppe; Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences: Agrosphere (IBG-3), Jülich, Germany
Jagdhuber, Thomas; Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences: Agrosphere (IBG-3), Jülich, Germany
Fluhrer, Anke; Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences: Agrosphere (IBG-3), Jülich, Germany
Schumacher, Maike; Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences: Agrosphere (IBG-3), Jülich, Germany
Schmidt, Marius; Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences: Agrosphere (IBG-3), Jülich, Germany
Vereecken, Harry; Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences: Agrosphere (IBG-3), Jülich, Germany
IEEE. GRSS - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society [US-NJ]
Funding text :
The SARSense campaign was performed under ESA Contract No. 4000125444/18/NL/LF. We acknowledge also support from the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy for the AssimEO project under the grant 50EE1914A and from the Helmholtz research infrastructure MOSES (Modular Observation Solutions for Earth Systems).
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