DWC-Radar
Resolving the Daily Water Cycle over Land with Radar Satellites
The project results clearly demonstrated the benefit of high-resolution backscatter data, and subsequently soil moisture data with high accuracy. Especially applications such as rainfall retrieval, irrigation, flood and landslide prediction can benefit greatly from this. The results of the project were directly disseminated to the Hydroterra Mission Advisory Group, and Wolfgang Wagner and Raphael Quast contributed to the Earth Explorer 10 Candidate Mission Hydroterra Report for Assessment with DWC-Radar results. Furthermore, the project was highly successful scientifically with the following scientific papers related to the work done in DWC-radar: Wagner, Wolfgang, Roland Lindorfer, Thomas Melzer, Sebastian Hahn,Bernhard Bauer-Marschallinger, Keith Morrison, Jean-Christoph Calvet,Stephen Hobbs, Endre Dobos, Raphael Quast, Isabella Pfeil,Mariette Vreugdenhil. Widespread occurrence of anomalous C-bandbackscatter signals in arid environments caused bysubsurface scatting, tbs to RSE.
Hard Facts
The overall aim of DWC-Radar was to assess the potential for monitoring components of the daily water cycle using spaceborne radar observations by exploiting the availability of five contemporary C-band radar instruments in space. While the project led to a better understanding of the daily water cycle, it also provided scientific know-how, algorithms, and datasets to the proposed Earth Explorer 10 HydroterraFurthermore, the project will demonstrated the high practical utility of daily soil moisture and rainfall observationsas input for three applications,namely irrigation water use mapping, flood forecasting and landslide risk assessment.
- Research Partners
- Ecosystems
- Environmental, Pollution and Climate
