Publication Date:
2019-07-13
Description:
Land surface microwave emissivity affects remote sensing of both the atmosphere and the land surface. The dynamical behavior of microwave emissivity over a very diverse sample of land surface types is studied. With seven years of satellite measurements from AMSR-E, we identified various dynamical regimes of the land surface emission. In addition, we used two radiative transfer models (RTMs), the Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM) and the Community Microwave Emission Modeling Platform (CMEM), to simulate land surface emissivity dynamics. With both CRTM and CMEM coupled to NASA's Land Information System, global-scale land surface microwave emissivities were simulated for five years, and evaluated against AMSR-E observations. It is found that both models have successes and failures over various types of land surfaces. Among them, the desert shows the most consistent underestimates (by approx. 70-80%), due to limitations of the physical models used, and requires a revision in both systems. Other snow-free surface types exhibit various degrees of success and it is expected that parameter tuning can improve their performances.
Keywords:
Instrumentation and Photography; Earth Resources and Remote Sensing
Type:
GSFC-E-DAA-TN22144
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Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment: MicroRad 2014; Mar 24, 2014 - Mar 27, 2014; Pasadena, CA; United States|MicroRad 2014: 13th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment; 99-102
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