Jin Yaqiu. REMOTE SENSING OF SOIL MOISTURE BY MULTI-FREQUEN-CY MICROWAVE RADIOMETER AND NUMERICAL CALCULATION[J]. Journal of Remote Sensing, 1990, (3): 195-203. DOI: 10.11834/jrs.1990027.
Since 1977 microwave brightness temperature of wet soil have been measured by multi-frequency (1.4
5.4
9.2 and 36 GHz) radiometer designed by Changchun Institute of Geography
Academia Sinica. The relationship between dualpolarized brightness temperature and soil moisture has been experimentally obtained. In numerical simulation
wet soil was modeled as stratified
half-space dissipated media. By using the dyadic Green’s function of stratified media and the fluctuation-dissipation theorem
thermal radiance from such media may be calculated. However
in the previous approaches of the fluctuation dissipation and radiative transfer
the functional dependence of practical soil dielectric profile with soil temperature
wetness
soil structure and so on were lacking. By employing the empirical formulation of multi-phase mixture for soil dielectric profile
and applying the fluctuation dissipation approach in WKB method
we developed a numerical model to simulate the brightness temperature versus soil surface wetness
frequency
observation angle
etc.. Our numerical results are shown to agree well with multi-frequency data measured in our Jing Yu Tang Remote Sensing Site. We also discuses in this paper the contribution from weighting function in radiative transfer at different depth for multi-frequency
and the effects due to wetness and temperature profiles
polarization
and observation angle. It does show quantitatively the functional dependence of brightness temperature on these conditions. Sensitivity of some parameters
such as wetness transition which is closely related with soil structure