Interferometric sea ice mapping with TanDEM-X: First experiments

Author

Scheiber, R. ; De Zan, F. ; Prats, P. ; Araújo, L. Sant´Anna ; Künemund, M. ; Marotti, L.

Author_Institution

Microwaves & Radar Inst., German Aerosp. Center (DLR), Wessling, Germany

fYear

2011

fDate

24-29 July 2011

Firstpage

3594

Lastpage

3597

Abstract

In summer 2010 during the commissioning phase of TanDEM-X, the TerraSAR-X/TanDEM-X constellation was operated in the pursuit monostatic mode allowing along- track interferometric measurements with very short time separation of only 2.6 sec. This paper presents first evaluations of data acquired on arctic sea ice scenarios and investigates the potentials for the mapping of ice sheet dynamics with respect to rotation and translation with this unique constellation. Due to the larger coverage, the data analysis is focused on interferometric ScanSAR data.

Keywords

oceanographic techniques; remote sensing by radar; sea ice; AD 2010; TerraSAR-X-TanDEM-X constellation; along-track interferometric measurements; arctic sea ice scenarios; ice sheet dynamics; interferometric ScanSAR data; monostatic mode; sea ice mapping; Azimuth; Current measurement; Decorrelation; Interferometry; Sea ice; Sea measurements; SAR interferometry; ocean currents; rotation; sea ice; translation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2011 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1003-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6050001

Filename

6050001