First observations with the UMass dual-beam InSAR

Author

Junek, William N. ; Ramanathan, Arunachalam ; Farquharson, Gordon ; Frasier, Stephen J. ; Tessier, Russell ; McLaughlin, David J. ; Sletten, Mark A. ; Toporkov, Jakov V.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Massachusetts Univ., Amherst, MA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

21-25 July 2003

Firstpage

530

Abstract

A dual-beam along-track interferometric synthetic aperture radar which is self contained within an aircraft pod has been developed to study coastal regions. System hardware is described. Initial test flights aboard the NOAA WP-3D research aircraft were performed to evaluate system performance over land and water surfaces. Notable look-angle dependencies are observed in the sea surface NRCS under very low wind conditions.

Keywords

airborne radar; data acquisition; interferometry; oceanographic techniques; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; NOAA WP-3D research aircraft; UMass dual-beam InSAR; aircraft pod; along-track interferometric SAR; coastal regions; dual-beam along-track interferometric synthetic aperture radar; dual-beam interferometric SAR; look-angle dependency; sea surface NRCS; synthetic aperture radar; system performance; test flights; Aircraft; Data acquisition; Microstrip antenna arrays; Radar antennas; Radar imaging; Radar remote sensing; Radar scattering; Radar tracking; Sea surface; Synthetic aperture radar interferometry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2003. IGARSS '03. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7929-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2003.1293832

Filename

1293832