TY - GEN

T1 - Monitoring Soil Properties Using EnMAP Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy Mission

AU - Chabrillat, Sabine

AU - Milewski, Robert

AU - Ward, Kathrin

AU - Foerster, Saskia

AU - Guillaso, Stephane

AU - Loy, Christopher

AU - Ben-Dor, Eyal

AU - Tziolas, Nikos

AU - Schmid, Thomas

AU - Van Wesemael, Bas

AU - Dematte, Jose A.M.

N1 - Funding Information: This study is supported by the project scientific preparation and support of the hyperspectral mission EnMAP (grant number 50EE1529) under the DLR Space Agency with resources from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate actions and additional contributions from GFZ Potsdam, DLR and partners institutes.

PY - 2023

Y1 - 2023

N2 - The Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program (EnMAP) is a new spaceborne German hyperspectral satellite mission, whose primary goal is to generate accurate information on the state and evolution of the Earth's ecosystems. The core themes of EnMAP are monitoring environmental changes, ecosystem responses to human activities, and management of natural resources such as soils and minerals. EnMAP started on 1st April 2022 and is now in operational phase since over six months, with strong expectations regarding data quality and impact on soil research. In this paper, we aim to demonstrate in a few case studies the observed current capabilities for EnMAP with regard to soil mapping based on different test sites and methodologies. Key soil properties could be derived and spatially mapped in agricultural test sites in semi-arid and temperate zones such as Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) content important for soil health and carbon sequestration, texture (clay content) important for soil fertility, and carbonate content. Additionally, we test different standard and state-of-the art methodologies, including new scenarios for time-series of hyperspectral remote sensing data for improved soil products.

AB - The Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program (EnMAP) is a new spaceborne German hyperspectral satellite mission, whose primary goal is to generate accurate information on the state and evolution of the Earth's ecosystems. The core themes of EnMAP are monitoring environmental changes, ecosystem responses to human activities, and management of natural resources such as soils and minerals. EnMAP started on 1st April 2022 and is now in operational phase since over six months, with strong expectations regarding data quality and impact on soil research. In this paper, we aim to demonstrate in a few case studies the observed current capabilities for EnMAP with regard to soil mapping based on different test sites and methodologies. Key soil properties could be derived and spatially mapped in agricultural test sites in semi-arid and temperate zones such as Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) content important for soil health and carbon sequestration, texture (clay content) important for soil fertility, and carbonate content. Additionally, we test different standard and state-of-the art methodologies, including new scenarios for time-series of hyperspectral remote sensing data for improved soil products.

KW - digital soil mapping

KW - EnMAP

KW - soil resources

KW - spaceborne imaging spectroscopy

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85178324273&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1109/IGARSS52108.2023.10282165

DO - 10.1109/IGARSS52108.2023.10282165

M3 - Conference contribution

AN - SCOPUS:85178324273

SN - 9798350331745

T3 - International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

SP - 1130

EP - 1133

BT - IGARSS 2023

PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

T2 - 2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium

Y2 - 16 July 2023 through 21 July 2023

ER -