Title :
The microasar experiment on CASIE-09
Author :
Long, David G. ; Zaugg, Evan ; Edwards, Matthew ; Maslanik, James
Author_Institution :
Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT, USA
Abstract :
During the summer of 2009, the Characterization of Arctic Sea Ice Experiment 2009 (CASIE-09) operated a small, unmanned aircraft system (UAS) over the Arctic Ocean for a number of long-distance flights from Svalbard Island. In addition to other instruments, the UAS carried a small C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) known as MicroASAR to image sea ice roughness at 1 m resolution. This paper briefly describes the SAR, its role in CASIE-09, and presents sample SAR image results.
Keywords :
remote sensing by radar; sea ice; synthetic aperture radar; AD 2009; Characterization of Arctic Sea Ice Experiment 2009; MicroASAR experiment; Svalbard Island; synthetic aperture radar; unmanned aircraft system; Arctic; Image resolution; Random access memory; Sea ice; Synthetic aperture radar; Unmanned aerial vehicles; UAS; sea ice; synthetic aperture radar;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9565-8
Electronic_ISBN :
2153-6996
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5650415
