Agriculture; Belgium; Environmental Monitoring; Hydrology; Radar; Remote Sensing Technology; Soil; Triticum; Zea mays; Statistics and Probability; Information Systems; Education; Computer Science Applications; Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty; Library and Information Sciences
Abstract :
[en] The BELSAR dataset consists of high-resolution multitemporal airborne mono- and bistatic fully-polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data in L-band, alongside concurrent measurements of vegetation and soil biogeophysical variables measured in maize and winter wheat fields during the summer of 2018 in Belgium. Its collection was funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) to address the lack of publicly-accessible experimental datasets combining multistatic SAR and in situ measurements. As such, it offers an opportunity to advance the development of SAR remote sensing science and applications for agricultural monitoring and hydrology. This paper aims to facilitate its adoption and exploration by offering comprehensive documentation and integrating its multiple data sources into a unified, analysis-ready dataset.
Disciplines :
Physics
Author, co-author :
Bouchat, Jean ; Earth and Life Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
This research was conducted in the framework of the BELSAR-Publication project funded by the STEREO III program of the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO) under contract SR/00/409. The authors would like to thank Quentin Vandersteen and Jeroen Claessen for the collection of the in situ data, Leila Guerriero, Nazzareno Pierdicca, and Hugh Griffiths, and Malcolm Davidson for their participation to the BELSAR steering committee, and the Service public de Wallonie for providing access to the Land Parcel Information System of Wallonia.
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