8th International Workshop on Retrieval of Bio- & Geo-physical Parameters from SAR Data for Land Applications

Session

General Land Applications

16 Nov 2023, 11:00

Rome, Italy

Conveners

General Land Applications

• Paola Rizzoli (DLR)
• Noelia Romero-Puig (German Aerospace Center (DLR))

80. Soil texture prediction using optical and radar remote sensing data in a random forest approach

Swen Meyer (University of Rostock, Geodesy and Geoinformatics)

16/11/2023, 11:00

Soil and Hydrology

The application of precision agriculture (PA) helps reduce ecosystem damage from agricultural emissions without compromising food security. One problem farmers face in implementing PA applications is the lack of high spatial resolution soil information.
For this study, the research project "pH-BB: Precision Liming in Brandenburg" provided data from 1091 soil samples collected and analyzed in...

73. Sentinel-1 time-series to detect alluvial small-scale gold mining in the Dem. Rep. Congo

Jörg Haarpaintner (NORCE Climate & Environment)

16/11/2023, 11:20

General Land Applications

Mineral extraction is an important part of the economy in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Artisanal and small-scale alluvial gold mining has been a source of livelihood, but as it is mostly operated informally, it is also a driver of illicit activities, child labor, conflict financing, human abuse and of course environmental degradation like water contamination, deforestation and...

78. Monitoring Soil Dynamics in the Netherlands Using Sentinel-1 Distributed Scatterer InSAR

Philip Conroy (TU Delft)

16/11/2023, 11:40

General Land Applications

See attached pdf for version with figs and equations
Introduction and Motivation
Land subsidence in the coastal peatlands of The Netherlands is becoming an increasingly critical issue as it is closely linked with sea level rise, flooding risks and greenhouse gas emissions due to soil oxidation [1,2]. Despite the importance of this problem, it is very difficult to accurately assess...