TropiSAR: Exploring the temporal behavior of P-Band SAR data

Author

Dubois-Fernandez, Pascale ; Oriot, Hélène ; Coulombeix, Colette ; Cantalloube, Hubert ; Du Plessis, Olivier Ruault ; Le Toan, Thuy ; Daniel, Sandrine ; Chave, Jerôme ; Blanc, Lilian ; Davidson, Malcolm ; Petit, Michel

fYear

2010

fDate

25-30 July 2010

Firstpage

1319

Lastpage

1322

Abstract

The TropiSAR campaign has been conducted in August 2009 in French Guiana with the ONERA airborne system SETHI. The main objective of this campaign was to collect data to support the Phase A of the Earth Explorer candidate mission, Biomass. Several specific questions need to be addressed to answer the recommendations of the ESAC group and the data collection strategy has been constructed accordingly. The first part of the paper lists these specific questions. We then describe the selected test sites, followed by a summary on the radar instrument and the radar configuration (geometry and waveform). The data acquisition plan is provided and the temporal behaviour of the P-Band data is explored.

Keywords

airborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; Biomass; ESAC group; Earth Explorer candidate mission; French Guiana; ONERA airborne system; P-band SAR data; Phase A; SETHI; TropiSAR; data acquisition plan; data collection strategy; radar configuration; radar instrument; Biomass; Carbon; Coherence; Geometry; Image color analysis; Laser radar; BIOMASS mission; PolInSAR; Tropical forest;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9565-8

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5649901

Filename

5649901