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 modeAvg. incidence angle (°)PolarizationSpatial resolution (m)Acquisition date (local time)

U1541.40HH301/07/2009
U433.00HH307/07/2010
U2648.40HH309/07/2010
U7525.75HH311/07/2010
U937.00HH317/07/2010
FQ2a20.90HH/VV/VH/HV823/07/2010
U2145.40HH323/07/2010
U7525.75HH304/08/2010
U937.00HH310/08/2010
U836.25HH309/07/2011
U7424.75HH310/07/2011
U1340.00HH312/07/2011
U7929.55HH313/07/2011
U433.00HH323/07/2011

aPass was descending (all others were ascending).