Year-long, broad-band, microwave backscatter observations of an alpine meadow over the Tibetan Plateau with a ground-based scatterometer

Hofste, Jan G.; van der Velde, Rogier; Wen, Jun; Wang, Xin; Wang, Zuoliang; Zheng, Donghai; van der Tol, Christiaan; Su, Zhongbo

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-2819-2021

Articles | Volume 13, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-2819-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-2819-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 6

Data description paper

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16 Jun 2021

Data description paper |

| 16 Jun 2021

Year-long, broad-band, microwave backscatter observations of an alpine meadow over the Tibetan Plateau with a ground-based scatterometer

Jan G. Hofste, Rogier van der Velde, Jun Wen, Xin Wang, Zuoliang Wang, Donghai Zheng, Christiaan van der Tol, and Zhongbo Su

Data sets

Long-term Ground-based Broadband Microwave Scatterometer Observations of an Alpine Meadow over the Tibetan Plateau J. G. Hofste, R. van der Velde, J. Wen, X. Wang, Z. Wang, D. Zheng, and Z. Su https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-zfb-qegy

Model code and software

Matlab Source Code for retrieving Backscatter Coefficients J. G. Hofste https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-xyf-fmkk

Short summary

The dataset reported in this paper concerns the measurement of microwave reflections from an alpine meadow over the Tibetan Plateau. These microwave reflections were measured continuously over 1 year. With it, variations in soil water content due to evaporation, precipitation, drainage, and soil freezing/thawing can be seen. A better understanding of the effects aforementioned processes have on microwave reflections may improve methods for estimating soil water content used by satellites.