An assessment of the Ka band interferometric radar altimeter for monitoring rivers and lakes with the WatER mission

Author

Enjolras, Vivien ; Rodriguez, Ernesto

Author_Institution

Thales Alenia Space, Toulouse

fYear

2007

fDate

23-28 July 2007

Firstpage

3525

Lastpage

3528

Abstract

The Water Elevation Recovery (WatER) satellite mission was recently proposed and supported by a large international scientific community. It is dedicated to the determination of land surface water extent, elevation and slope, and also ocean mesoscale and submesoscale phenomena, using a Ka band Radar Interferometer (KaRIN) as its primary instrument. This instrument is able to provide the appropriate space-time sampling required to observe full signatures of the parameters characterizing these phenomena. However, determining these parameters to the accuracy desired for hydrologic applications is challenging.

Keywords

lakes; radar altimetry; radar interferometry; rivers; Ka band Interferometric Radar Altimeter; KaRIN; WatER Mission; Water Elevation Recovery satellite mission; hydrologic applications; lakes Monitoring; land surface water; ocean mesoscale phenomena; oceanic submesoscale phenomena; rivers monitoring; space-time sampling; Instruments; Lakes; Land surface; Monitoring; Oceans; Rivers; Sampling methods; Satellites; Sea surface; Spaceborne radar; altimetry; hydrology; interferometry; radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2007. IGARSS 2007. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1211-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1212-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423606

Filename

4423606