Research Article
Spatiotemporal Variability of Arctic Soil Moisture Detected from High-Resolution RADARSAT-2 SAR Data
Table 1
RADARSAT-2 data used in the analysis.
| RADARSAT-2 beam mode | Avg. incidence angle (°) | Polarization | Spatial resolution (m) | Acquisition date (local time) |
| U15 | 41.40 | HH | 3 | 01/07/2009 | U4 | 33.00 | HH | 3 | 07/07/2010 | U26 | 48.40 | HH | 3 | 09/07/2010 | U75 | 25.75 | HH | 3 | 11/07/2010 | U9 | 37.00 | HH | 3 | 17/07/2010 | FQ2a | 20.90 | HH/VV/VH/HV | 8 | 23/07/2010 | U21 | 45.40 | HH | 3 | 23/07/2010 | U75 | 25.75 | HH | 3 | 04/08/2010 | U9 | 37.00 | HH | 3 | 10/08/2010 | U8 | 36.25 | HH | 3 | 09/07/2011 | U74 | 24.75 | HH | 3 | 10/07/2011 | U13 | 40.00 | HH | 3 | 12/07/2011 | U79 | 29.55 | HH | 3 | 13/07/2011 | U4 | 33.00 | HH | 3 | 23/07/2011 |
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aPass was descending (all others were ascending).
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