| Title | Use of AIRSAR to identify woody shrub invasion and other indicators of desertification in the Jornada LTER |
| Publication Type | Conference Proceedings |
| Year of Publication | 1995 |
| Authors | H. Musick B, Schaber GG, Breed CS |
| Conference Name | Summaries of the Fifth Annual JPL Airborne Earth Science Workshop |
| Volume | 3 |
| Pagination | 31-34 |
| Date Published | January 23-26, 1 |
| Accession Number | JRN00199 |
| Call Number | 00653 |
| Keywords | abstract, abstracts, conference, conference proceedings, conferences, proceeding, proceedings, remote sensing, AIRSAR, shrub encroachment |
| Abstract | The objective of this study was to determine if the potential sensitivity of active microwave remote sensing to vegetation structure could be used to assess the degree of shrub invasion of grassland. Polarimetric Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (AIRSAR) data were acquired for a semiarid site containing varied mixtures of shrubs and herbaceous vegetation and compared with ground observations of vegetation type and other land-surface characteristics. In this preliminary report we examine the response of radar backscatter intensity to shrub density. The response of other multipolarization parameters will be examined in future work. |
