• DocumentCode
    670015
  • Title

    “The challenge for still unresolved development of multi-band equatorially orbiting POLSAR satellite sensors - an integral task for the major space-SAR technology centers world-wide”

  • Author

    Boerner, Wolfgang-Martin

  • Author_Institution
    Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    23-27 Sept. 2013
  • Firstpage
    11
  • Lastpage
    11
  • Abstract
    With the relentless increase in population density, the anthropogenic expansion into natural terrestrial hazard zones has become irreversible resulting in ever more catastrophic disasters, not only in the Asia-Pacific region more so within the entire tropical belts engulfing Mother Earth. Thus not only the Indonesian-Pacific Islands, so also South America, Africa and back via the Indian Ocean Islands to Asia-Pacific, these natural events like volcano eruptions, earthquakes with emerging tsunami, cyclones and severe down pours have caused havoc, loss of lives, destruction of infrastructure and above all intentional manmade interference resulting in the deterioration of pristine tropical jungle forests. Matters have become so bad that proposals are forthcoming for equating oil-palm mono-cultures with pristine tropical jungle habitat by greedy developers mostly exterior to local environmental regions suffering helplessly from such criminal machinations.
  • Keywords
    disasters; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; Africa; Asia-Pacific region; Indian Ocean Islands; Indonesian-Pacific Islands; Mother Earth; South America; anthropogenic expansion; catastrophic disasters; cyclones; earthquakes; multiband equatorially orbiting POLSAR satellite sensors; natural terrestrial hazard zones; population density; space-SAR technology; tsunami; volcano eruptions; Belts; Hazards; Oceans; Optical sensors; Satellites; Synthetic aperture radar;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Synthetic Aperture Radar (APSAR), 2013 Asia-Pacific Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Tsukuba
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6704995