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Talks and Poster Presentations (with Proceedings-Entry):

I. Greimeister-Pfeil, C. Reimer, W. Wagner:
"Determination of the Freeze/Thaw Surface State from ERS-2 Backscatter Data";
Poster: 37. Wissenschaftlich-Technische Jahrestagung der DGPF, Würzburg, Germany; 2017-03-08 - 2017-03-10; in: "Kulturelles Erbe erfassen und bewahren - Von der Dokumentation zum virtuellen Rundgang", Publikationen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Photogrammetrie, Fernerkundung und Geoinformation (DGPF) e.V., 26 (2017), ISSN: 0942-2870; 498 - 507.



English abstract:
The freeze/thaw cycle of the Earth´s surface determines the timing and the length of the vegetation growing season. Applications like permafrost monitoring and climate studies require information on the freeze/thaw state, however, conventional methods such as temperature records from in-situ stations are often severely hampered by the low density of weather stations. In order to obtain a global dataset of the freeze/thaw cycle, satellite remote sensing methods provide a good means since their observations of albedo, temperature or backscatter can be used to infer surface freeze/thaw state. The aim of this work was to derive freeze/thaw state from backscatter measurements by the scatterometer on-board the European Remote Sensing satellites. The results were validated against different soil models and in-situ networks.

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