Terrain slope and surface roughness studies using circularly polarized SAR backscatter

Author

Schuler, D.L. ; Lee, J.S.

Author_Institution

Div. of Remote Sensing, Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA

Volume

4

fYear

1998

fDate

6-10 Jul 1998

Firstpage

2187

Abstract

The authors use a new SAR technique for measurement of terrain slopes in the azimuthal (along-track) direction for correction of terrain slope-related polarimetric effects in SAR surface roughness, or soil moisture, inversion studies. A second goal is determination of the sensitivity of a circular polarization correlation function for the measurement of terrain slopes and surface roughness

Keywords

geophysical techniques; hydrological techniques; moisture measurement; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; soil; synthetic aperture radar; along-track direction; circular polarization correlation function; circularly polarized SAR backscatter; geophysical measurement technique; hydrology; land surface topography; radar polarimetry; radar remote sensing; soil moisture; surface roughness; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; terrain slope; Backscatter; Covariance matrix; Dielectric measurements; Polarization; Pollution measurement; Rough surfaces; Scattering; Soil measurements; Surface contamination; Surface roughness;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings, 1998. IGARSS '98. 1998 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4403-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1998.703781

Filename

703781