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IUGG XXIV General Assembly July 2-13, 2007 Perugia, Italy<br />

(S) - <strong>IASPEI</strong> - International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's<br />

Interior<br />

JSS003 Oral Presentation 1870<br />

Monitoring soil wetness variations by a multi-temporal microwave satellite<br />

records analysis<br />

Dr. Teodosio Lacava<br />

IMAA CNR<br />

Elena Vita Di Leo, Nicola Pergola, Valerio Tramutoli<br />

In the last few years, remote sensing observations have become an useful tool for providing<br />

hydrological information, including the quantification of the main physical characteristics of the<br />

catchments, such as topography and land use, and of their variables, like soil moisture or snow cover.<br />

Moreover, satellite data have also been largely used in the framework of hydro-meteorological risk<br />

assessment and mitigation. Recently, an innovative Soil Wetness Variation Index (SWVI) has been<br />

proposed, using data acquired by the microwave radiometer AMSU (Advanced Microwave Sounding<br />

Unit), flying aboard NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) polar satellites. The<br />

proposed index, developed by a multi-temporal analysis of AMSU records (RST - Robust Satellite<br />

Techniques), seems able to reduce the problems related to vegetation and/or roughness effects. Such<br />

an approach has been tested on the analysis of some flooding events which occurred in Europe in past<br />

years. Results obtained up to now seem to confirm the reliability of the proposed approach verifying its<br />

sensitivity in the identification of pre-precipitations soil conditions, particularly useful for warning system<br />

purposes, as well as for monitoring space-time dynamic of the considered event. In this paper,<br />

preliminary results obtained by the analysis of data related to the flooding event occurred in Europe<br />

during summer 2003 are presented. The assessment of the reliability of such results have been made<br />

comparing them with data acquired by AMSRE (Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth<br />

Observing System), a more recent radiometer with spectral features better then AMSU in retrying soil<br />

moisture.<br />

Keywords: soil moisture, multi temporal analysis, microwave

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