DocumentCode
3360762
Title
Spaceborne P-band SAR for BIOMASS mission
Author
Ramongassié, Sophie ; Castiglioni, Shadi Khureim ; Lorenzo, Jérôme ; Labiole, Eric ; Baudassé, Yannick ; Svara, Carlo ; Luigi, Cereoli ; Hélière, Florence ; Mangenot, Cyril ; Klooster, Kees Van´t ; Fonseca, Nelson ; Diez, Hubert ; Belot, Daniel
Author_Institution
Thales Alenia Space France, Toulouse, France
fYear
2010
fDate
25-30 July 2010
Firstpage
2880
Lastpage
2883
Abstract
In the frame of the BIOMASS mission promoted by ESA for evaluating and monitoring Earth biomass, the expected performance of a P-band SAR instrument based on very large Direct Radiating Array antenna is addressed, as well as its architecture and the accommodation challenge on a platform.
Keywords
forestry; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; vegetation mapping; ESA BIOMASS mission; Earth biomass evaluation; Earth biomass monitoring; spaceborne P-band SAR instrument; very large direct radiating array antenna; Antennas; Arrays; Biomass; Carbon; Instruments; Radio frequency; Satellites; P-band radar; SAR; biomass; carbon cycle; direct radiating antenna; forest; full-polarimetric mode; large deployable antenna;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International
Conference_Location
Honolulu, HI
ISSN
2153-6996
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-9565-8
Electronic_ISBN
2153-6996
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5653156
Filename
5653156
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