Potential and limitations of RADARSAT SAR data for wet snow monitoring

N. Baghdadi, Y. Gauthier, M. Bernier, J.-P. Fortin
2000 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing  
Based on Canadian Satellite (RADARSAT) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images and simulations from a radar-backscattering model, we determined that conventional wet snow-mapping algorithms should perform optimally for a snowpack with a liquid-water content 3%, at low incidence angle ( = 20-30 ) and for a rather smooth surface (rms height ≤ 2.1 mm). Index Terms-RADARSAT, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), wet snow.
doi:10.1109/36.823925 fatcat:ycaxe6mikrfrbnedulzp65hnuq