| Title | Investigating the Relationship Between Crop Residue Cover and Radar Backscatter |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
supersedes any previous licences. |
| Author | McNairn, H; Boisvert, J B; Duguay, C; Huffman, E; Brown, R J |
| Source | International Symposium, Geomatics in the Era of RADARSAT (GER'97), Ottawa, Canada, May 25-30; 1997., https://doi.org/10.4095/218972  Open Access |
| Year | 1997 |
| Alt Series | Earth Sciences Sector, Contribution Series 20042170 |
| Document | book |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | paper; on-line; digital |
| File format | pdf |
| Released | 1997 01 01 |
| Abstract | Post-harvest agricultural surfaces have varying amounts of crop residue cover, with the amount and type of cover determining, in part, the erodibility and health of the topsoil. If RADARSAT is to be
used to map residue and/or tillage in order to monitor soil conservation practices, an understanding is required of the relationship between residue and radar backscatter. During the Fall of 1996, an experiment was conducted on agricultural plots at
the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa. The experiment was designed to address the importance of residue type (corn and barley), residue moisture content and residue amount to radar backscatter, and to examine the
effect of look direction on radar response. Scatterometer measurements (C- and L-Band with 4 linear polarizations) were made over corn and barley plots with treatments varying by residue amount and moisture level. Soil and residue moisture data were
collected during 9 days of scatterometer acquisitions. This paper describes the preliminary results on the relationship between residue characteristics and C-Band radar backscatter, which demonstrated that using RADARSAT and ERS-2 configurations,
some information can be provided on residue management practices. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 218972 |
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