Abstract
An attempt is made to derive the evolution of the temperature and the water status of the Amazon forest canopy from satellite microwave radiometry. The Nimbus-7 Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) temperature-corrected tapes data are analyzed for the 6.6, 10.7, 18, and 37 GHz frequencies, at daytime and nighttime, over a zone near Manaus (3/spl deg/S, 60/spl deg/W), Brazil. Two periods are investigated: the wet (April-May) and dry (July-August) seasons of 1985. After separating forest- from river-contaminated pixels, atmospheric corrections are performed for water vapor, clouds, and rain, using surface and satellite data. Algorithms are developed to model the microwave thermal emission of vegetation following a continuous approach and a discrete approach. A sensitivity study is performed in order to determine which frequencies are relevant to retrieve land surface parameters. The models are then used along with an optimization procedure so as to carry out the inversion of the canopy structure parameters. The vegetation temperature and water content are retrieved through the continuous model.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
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