• DocumentCode
    1337596
  • Title

    BioSARTM: an inexpensive airborne VHF multiband SAR system for vegetation biomass measurement

  • Author

    Imhoff, Marc L. ; Johnson, Patrick ; Holford, Warren ; Hyer, Joseph ; May, Lisa ; Lawrence, William ; Harcombe, Paul

  • Author_Institution
    NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
  • Volume
    38
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    5/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1458
  • Lastpage
    1462
  • Abstract
    A pulse coherent synthetic aperture radar (SAR) operating between 80-120 MHz has been developed in an attempt to measure heavy forest biomass. The sensor uses a nadir-pointing antenna configuration and collects data in a 300-m wide swath on the ground along the flight line
  • Keywords
    airborne radar; forestry; geophysical equipment; geophysical techniques; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; vegetation mapping; 80 to 120 MHz; BioSAR; VHF radar; airborne radar; biomass; geophysical measurement technique; heavy forest; multiband SAR; nadir-pointing antenna; pulse coherent radar; radar remote sensing; synthetic aperture radar; vegetation mapping; Antenna measurements; Biomass; Doppler radar; Frequency; Ground penetrating radar; Pulse measurements; Radar antennas; Radar remote sensing; Radar tracking; Vegetation mapping;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0196-2892
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/36.843042
  • Filename
    843042
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1337596