A radar demonstrator for ground-based L-band ground reflectivity measurements

Author

Maslikowski, Lukasz ; Krysik, Piotr ; Kulpa, K. ; Dabrowska-Zielinska, Katarzyna ; Bartold, M.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electron. Syst., Warsaw Univ. of Technol., Warsaw, Poland

fYear

2012

fDate

Oct. 31 2012-Nov. 2 2012

Firstpage

119

Lastpage

122

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to describe a ground-based radar demonstrator dedicated for ground reflectivity measurement in the L band, that was built at the Warsaw University of Technology. The measurement results are to be used by the Institute of Geodesy and Cartography as the reference data for satellite image interpretation. The system was composed of COTS elements and utilizes the concept of software-defined noise radar. The paper covers the topics of scattering coefficient measurement theory, system setup and signal processing as well as the preliminary results of field measurements.

Keywords

cartography; geodesy; radar signal processing; remote sensing by radar; COTS elements; L-band ground reflectivity measurements; ground-based radar demonstrator; radar signal processing; satellite image interpretation; scattering coefficient measurement theory; software-defined noise radar; Antenna measurements; Dipole antennas; Radar antennas; Radar measurements; Scattering; Spaceborne radar; noise radar; scattering coefficient; scatterometer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference (EuRAD), 2012 9th European

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2471-7

Type

conf

Filename

6450719