Long-term Ground-based Broadband Microwave Scatterometer Observations of an Alpine Meadow over the Tibetan Plateau

The radar return (amplitude and phase) of the ground surface was measured over 1 - 10 GHz in the four linear polarization combinations (vv, hh, hv, vh) at hourly or half-hourly intervals .

This dataset contains both the (raw) radar return values (amplitude and phase) and the backscattering coefficients (sigma0) derived from it for four bands: 1.5 - 1.75 GHz (L-band), 2.5 - 3.0 GHz (s-band), 4.5 - 5.0 GHz (C-band), 9.0 - 10.0 GHz (X-band). Included are results from the time-series measurements over the period August 2017 - August 2018 and results of experiments (during three days in summer) where the ground backscatter was measured under various incidence- and azimuth angles.