What was the purpose of SARSense

The SARSense campaign in the Jülich area (Germany) in summer 2019 was performed to support the ESA Copernicus high priority mission ROSE-L. Airborne SAR signals in C- and L-band, drone imagery, in situ soil and plant parameters, as well as biophysical variables in the lab were measured to provide a comprehensive data set to study details of the mission design for agricultural applications.

What was the outcome of SARSense

The main outcome of the dry summer example campaign is as follows:

1. An L-band SAR monitoring in the Copernicus program will provide an added value to the existing C-band capacities of Sentinel-1
2. Simultaneous C- and L-band observations may help to disentangle the different processes in the plant and the soil. Single frequency observations may tend to be misinterpreted.

Download SARSense final report

Data Citation Users, who, in their research, use ESA Earth Observation data that have been assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), are asked to use it when citing the data source in their publications:

Digital Object Identifier: SARSense: Technical Assistance for Airborne Measurements during the SAR Sentinel Experiment, https://doi.org/10.5270/ESA-6229b69

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