2011 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
DOI: 10.1109/igarss.2011.6049360
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The results of an experiment carried out in Italy for exploiting the capabilities of X-band SAR in the monitoring of soil and vegetation characteristics are summarized in this paper. Data from X-band Cosmo-Skymed mission have been collected in two agricultural areas and compared with C-band data of ENVISAT/ASAR and with ground truth measurements. In general, a certain sensitivity to vegetation biomass and to moisture of bare soils has been found.