Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Land--Atmosphere Interactions

Global and mesoscale modeling and data needs; Large-scale land-atmosphere models and data needs. Mesoscale land-atmosphere models and usefulness of microwave remote-sensing data; Snow cover and snow mass estimates from remote sensing, climatology and the United Kingdom Meteorological Office General Circulation Model; Soil moisture estimation: comparisons between hydrologic model estimates and remotely sensed estimates; Synergism; Sensitivity of active and passive microwave sensors to land parameters; Theory of microwave scattering from vegetation based on the collective scattering effects of discrete scatterers; Synergism of optical and microwave observations for land surface studies; Radiometry at infrared and microwave frequencies; Synergism of active and passive microwave data for estimating bare soil surface moisture; Snow; Intercomparison of snow retrieval algorithms by means of spacebome microwave radiometry; Canadian development and use of snow cover information from passive microwave satellite data; Application of SSMI data for snow cover and climate research; Size parameters of snow grains in scattering and emission models; Monitoring snow cover on the Tibetan Plateau using passive microwave satellite data; Passive microwave remote sensing of snow: volume scattering in snow and parametric inversion of snow parameters with an artificial neural network; Vegetation; Vegetation models and observations; A review; Progress in multi-frequency radiometry of natural objects; Microwave emission from vegetation; Canopy opacity models; Modeling microwave emission from vegetation-covered surfaces: a parametric analysis; Retrieval of geophysical parameters from multifrequency passive microwave measurements over a soybean canopy; Soil moisture; Passive microwave radiation from soil: examples of emission models and observations; Estimation of soil moisture profiles and root zone moisture content by means of microwave radiometry and a priori information; Soil moisture estimation from multifrequency microwave radiometer data based on statistical inversion technique; Retrieval of soil moisture profile by combined remote sensing and modelling; Identification of snowcover using SSMI measurements; Surface temperature; Surface temperature estimation over land using satellite microwave radiometry; Evaporation monitoring over land surface using microwave radiometry; A model for the radio brightness of Northern Prairie; Atmospheric correction and precipitation; Overland precipitation; Theoretical foundations and verification of a multispectral, inversion-type microwave precipitation profile retrieval algorithm; Radiometric correction for atmospheric effects in surface sensing from aircraft and satellites; Instrumentation; The design of the ESA Multifrequency Imaging Microwave Radiometer (MIMR); Working group reports.

Biography

Bhaskar J. Choudhury, Yann H. Kerr, Eni G. Njoku, Paolo Pampaloni