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

fYear

2012

fDate

22-27 July 2012

Firstpage

1602

Lastpage

1605

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1160-1

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350810

Filename

6350810