An AMSR-E Monitoring of Snowstorm-Disaster in South-China in 2008 Year

It is experienced the low temperature, rain, snow, cold weather never happened over the past 50 years in the South-China in 2008 year. The electricity, transportation, communication, house and farmland have been seriously damaged. It is very urgent to monitor disaster by using remote sensing images, assess and guide disaster relief. Optical and thermal infrared remote sensing is influenced much by atmospheric clouds, so the microwave data is the best choice to monitor and analyze the development of disaster. As the scope of the affected area is very large, passive microwave data AMSR-E is used to monitor the change of snow-area and the distribution of snow-depth (intensity). The application analysis indicates that passive microwave data can be well utilized to monitor changes in snow cover and the intensity distribution, and more study should be made further for mixed pixel including water.