Dualband - TerraSAR simulation/campaign results for L-band configuration

The objectives of the TerraSAR-SIM campaign were to quantify the impact of the time intervals between SAR acquisitions at different wavelengths on agricultural applications. In 2 flight campaigns in 5 similar flight programs suitable multipolarised L,-X- and C-band radar data were acquired in a test site in Barrax. The different processing qualities of the level 1b data were analysed with different evaluation methods such as separability analysis, scatter plots, histogram analysis, biomass correlation, classification. Particularly the separability analysis was used in order to assess the influence and quality of the different radar wavelength, polarisations, acquisition dates/time lags and of level 1B processing parameters on the quality of agricultural and land use applications and retrieval algorithms. Campaign and analysis results are presented in the following paper