AN EXTENSION OF MICROWAVE VEGETATION INDICES FOR SHORT VEGETATION COVERED SURFACES USING FY-3B/MWRI DATA

The Microwave Radiation Imager (MWRI) on board FY-3B is a passive microwave instrument. Since the launch of FY-3B, MWRI has provided large amount of data and successfully supported applications on land surface parameters estimation. These achievements indicate that FY-3B/MWRI has the potential in vegetation monitoring. In this study, we extended our algorithm for deriving MVIs from AMSR-E to that under FY-3B/MWRI sensor configuration. We hope that this will also contribute to long-term vegetation monitoring combining AMSR-E and AMSR2 data.