Title :
Biomass End-to-End mission performance assessment
Author :
López-Dekker, Paco ; García, José A. ; De Zan, Francesco ; Börner, Thomas ; Younis, Marwan ; Papathanassiou, Kostas ; Guardabrazo, Tomás ; Bourlon, Valerie ; Ramongassie, Sophie ; Taveneau, Nicolas ; Ulander, Lars ; Murdin, Daniel ; Rogers, Neil ; Quegan,
Author_Institution :
Microwaves & Radar Inst, German Aerosp. Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Abstract :
This paper provides an overview of the BIOMASS Mission End-to-End simulator (BEES) and of the mission performance analysis performed with it. The end-to-end performance, in terms of biomass estimates error, is close to the 20% error goal set for the mission. The main sources of errors are temporal decorrelation and the limited available bandwidth, while system induced errors have a negligible impact on the final performance.
Keywords :
geophysical equipment; geophysical image processing; geophysical techniques; synthetic aperture radar; vegetation; BIOMASS mission end-to-end simulator; biomass estimates error; mission performance analysis; temporal decorrelation; Biological system modeling; Biomass; Coherence; Covariance matrix; Decorrelation; Europe; Ionosphere; BIOMASS; SAR; Simulator;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1160-1
Electronic_ISBN :
2153-6996
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350810
