ALOS PALSAR products verification

Author

Borner, T. ; Papathanassiou, Konstantinos P. ; Marquart, N. ; Zink, M. ; Meininger, M. ; Meadows, Peter J ; Rye, A.J. ; Wright, Paul ; Rosich Tell, B.

Author_Institution

German Aerosp. Center (DLR), Wessling

fYear

2007

fDate

23-28 July 2007

Firstpage

5214

Lastpage

5217

Abstract

ALOS, an enhanced successor of the Japanese Earth Resources Satellite 1 (JERS-1), was launched from JAXA´s Tanegashima Space Center in January 2006. An important contribution to the ALOS mission is the verification of PALSAR products to be distributed by the European ADEN node using the PALSAR processor developed by JAXA. A total of 28 ALOS PALSAR products have been analysed with respect to radiometric, geometric and polarimetric quality (including effects of Faraday rotation caused by the ionosphere) and a summary of the results is shown in this paper.

Keywords

Faraday effect; artificial satellites; ionosphere; radar polarimetry; radiometry; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; AD 2006 01; ALOS PALSAR products verification; ALOS mission; Faraday rotation; JERS-1; Japanese Earth Resources Satellite 1; geometric quality; ionosphere; polarimetric quality; radiometric quality; Earth; Instruments; Ionosphere; Microwave radiometry; Pattern analysis; Polarization; Quality assessment; Remote sensing; Satellite broadcasting; Spatial resolution; ALOS PALSAR; Faraday rotation.; geometry; polarimetry; product quality assessment; radiometry;

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.2007.4424037

Filename

4424037