RADARSAT-2 spotlight mode interferometry time series data for monitoring arctic DEW Line Clean Up

Author

Secker, Jeff ; Mattar, Karim E. ; Chen Liu ; Price, D. ; Rowlands, David

Author_Institution

Defence R&D Canada - Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

fYear

2013

fDate

April 29 2013-May 3 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) is cleaning up and remediating environmental hazards at former Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line sites located across the Canadian Arctic. The DEW Line Clean-Up proof of concept project is underway, to determine if space-based Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data can be used for landfill monitoring at these DEW Line sites. Interferometric time series of RADARSAT-2 Spotlight mode images have been acquired over four former DEW Line sites, and preliminary results show that two-colour multi-view (2CMV) and coherent change detection (CCD) products are useful for detecting change in and around landfills.

Keywords

geophysical image processing; image colour analysis; military radar; object detection; radar imaging; radar interferometry; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; time series; Canadian Arctic; Canadian Department of National Defence; RADARSAT-2 spotlight mode interferometry time series data; arctic DEW line clean up monitoring; coherent change detection products; distant early warning line sites; environmental hazards; interferometric time series; landfill monitoring; space-based synthetic aperture radar data; two-colour multiview products; Antennas; Arctic; Backscatter; Coherence; Ocean temperature; Radar; Time series analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference (RADAR), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Ottawa, ON

ISSN

1097-5659

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5792-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RADAR.2013.6586150

Filename

6586150