Title :
Applicability and operational criteria of ALOS for natural disaster reduction
Author_Institution :
Nat. Res. Inst. for Earth Sci. & Disaster Prevention, Ibaraki, Japan
Abstract :
ALOS has optical and L-band SAR systems the same as JERS-1. The advantage of ALOS to applications of disaster observation compared with JERS-1 is discussed. Operational criteria of ALOS for the observations are presented
Keywords :
disasters; radar imaging; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; ALOS; disaster observation; natural disaster reduction; operational criteria; optical and L-band SAR systems; Earth; Infrared sensors; L-band; Large-scale systems; Optical sensors; Phased arrays; Polarization; Radiometry; Satellite broadcasting; Sensor arrays;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2000. Proceedings. IGARSS 2000. IEEE 2000 International
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6359-0
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2000.859594
