Research Article

Mapping Agricultural Frozen Soil on the Watershed Scale Using Remote Sensing Data

Table 3

Description of the RADARSAT-1 images acquired over the Bras d'Henri watershed during the three winter seasons (2003-2004 to 2005-2006) and the reasons for the use of only 12 radar images in this study.

Winter seasonDates of RADARSAT-1 image acquisitionsUse (yes/no)Reason

08 November 2003YesDry snow
02 December 2003YesDry snow
26 December 2003NoWet snow surface coinciding with the
RADARSAT-1 overpass
First19 January 2004YesDry snow
25 January 2004NoWet snow surface coinciding with the
RADARSAT-1 overpass
29 February 2004YesDry snow

02 November 2004YesDry snow
06 December 2004NoAcquisition failures due to the
conflicts with other users.
10 January 2005NoAcquisition failures due to the
Secondconflicts with other users.
13 January 2005YesDry snow
06 February 2005NoWet snow surface coinciding with the
RADARSAT-1 overpass
14 February 2005NoAcquisition failures due to the
conflicts with other users.

08 January 2006YesDry snow
01 February 2006YesDry snow
Third25 February 2006YesDry snow
21 March 2006YesDry snow
14 April 2006YesDry snow
08 May 2006YesDry snow