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
Link To Document :
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