Analysis of Ers Sar and Wind Scatterometer Data Complementarity over a Sahelian Agro-pastoral Area
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A study has been conducted over an agro-pastoral area in Niger, characterised by large land use heterogeneity, using low resolution Wind Scatterometer (WSC) data. 9-year WSC data time series are analysed over the study site with the help of a backscattering model. 8 ERS Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images were also analysed in order to quantify the different land use contributions to the WSC radar response. Simulations results show that the contribution of vegetation remains low. These results are quite different from those obtained over Sahelian pastoral areas in Mali, where vegetation contribution cannot be neglected.
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