Digital Beamforming Synthetic Aperture Radar (DBSAR) polarimetric operation during the Eco3D flight campaign

Author

Rincon, F. ; Fatoyinbo, T. ; Ranson, J. ; Sun, G. ; Perrine, M. ; Bonds, Q. ; Valett, S. ; Seufert, S.

Author_Institution

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

22-27 July 2012

Firstpage

1549

Lastpage

1552

Abstract

The Digital Beamforming Synthetic Aperture Radar instrument demonstrated its first polarimetric polarization operation during the Eco-3D flight campaign, on board the NASA P3 aircraft in the summer/fall 2011. The measurements acquired during the campaign are currently being used to demonstrate DBSAR´s science utility by providing critical information on vegetation structure needed to estimate vegetation biomass in order to advance our understanding of the carbon cycle.

Keywords

geophysical equipment; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; AD 2011; DBSAR instrument; DBSAR polarimetric operation; DBSAR science utility; ECO3D R flight campaign; NASA P3 aircraft; carbon cycle; digital beamforming synthetic aperture radar; polarimetric polarization operation; vegetation biomass; vegetation structure; Antenna measurements; Array signal processing; Biomass; NASA; Spaceborne radar; Synthetic aperture radar; Digital Beamforming; SAR;

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.2012.6351101

Filename

6351101