PRISM-19
Vegetation
Project Overview
The
objective of the vegetation monitoring is to characterise the
paddocks monitored for soil moisture in the individual 3km × 3km
focus areas, so as to describe all dominant vegetation types at
various stages of maturity and vegetation water content.
Vegetation sampling activities will be conducted on the
Downscaling Flight (DS) days when the ground soil moisture truth
is not needed for validation purposes.
The
objective of the intensive vegetation sampling during the PRISM
campaign is to collect detailed plant structural parameters for
selected vegetation types (agricultural and grazing) and to track
the evolution of such parameters across the entire campaign
period, for the purpose of soil moisture retrieval algorithm
development.
