Polarimetric, combined, short pulse scatterometer-radiometer system at 5.6GHz

Author

Hambaryan, A.K. ; Arakelyan, A.K. ; Arakelyan, A.A. ; Darbinyan, S.A. ; Grigoryan, M.L. ; Hakobyan, I.K. ; Karyan, V.V. ; Manukyan, M.R. ; Hovhannisyan, G.G. ; Poghosyan, T.N. ; Poghosyan, N.G.

Author_Institution

ECOSERV Remote Obs. Centre Co.Ltd., Yerevan

fYear

2007

fDate

23-28 July 2007

Firstpage

4471

Lastpage

4473

Abstract

In this paper a C-band (~5.6 GHz), dual polarization, combined scatterometer-radiometer system is described. The system allows carry out polarimetric (vv, vh, hh, hv), simultaneous and coincident microwave active-passive measurements of the observed surface (soil, vegetation, snow and water surface) parameters. The originality of the developed system is in the spatial-temporal combination of microwave active and passive channels of observation and its possible application for short distance sensing (the minimum operational range for the scatterometer is ~6 m) from low altitude platforms under far field conditions for both radar and radiometric observations.

Keywords

microwave imaging; radar polarimetry; radiometers; radiometry; snow; soil; vegetation; C-band; coincident microwave active-passive measurements; dual polarization; frequency 5.6 GHz; polarimetric scatterometer-radiometer system; radar observations; radiometric observations; short distance sensing; short pulse scatterometer-radiometer system; snow surface; soil surface; vegetation; water surface; Microwave measurements; Passive radar; Polarization; Radar applications; Radar measurements; Radar scattering; Snow; Soil measurements; Surface soil; Vegetation; radar; radiometer; scatterometer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2007. IGARSS 2007. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1211-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1212-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423848

Filename

4423848