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Scattering structure features of targets is of great importance for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image analysis. In this paper, a novel algorithm for aircraft recognition in high resolution apron area of SAR images is proposed. The algorithm combines the strength of gradient saliency map and scattering structure features to improve accuracy and efficiency. Specially, Constant False-Alarm Rate (CFAR)...
Recently airborne SAR at very high frequencies, such as X- and Ku-bands, has been widely studied for many applications. In these studies, the backscatter properties at different frequencies have been well discussed. However, these properties of the urban objects and structures have not been sufficiently discussed yet. In this paper, we focus on evaluating the difference of Ku- and X-band SAR intensity...
With a low cut-off for the directional wave spectra CFOSAT will impact both mixed sea and swell. The complementary use of CFOSAT and SAR wave spectra will enhance the impact of the assimilation and therefore induce a more accurate sea state. The CFOSAT mission is on one hand a big challenge for operational wave forecasting system, and on the other hand a good opportunity for wave modellers in order...
This paper investigates the deployment of multi-tethered InSAR system applied in GMTI missions. Since the baselines for GMTI are usually short, the tethers whose length is almost identical to the baselines are short as well. As a consequence, the deploy mechanism should not work under this condition to avoid the unsuccessful deployment caused by the output error of the mechanism. Hence, the free deployment...
Five possible mechanisms for the rain effects on the spaceborne C-band SAR observations are considered: 1) attenuation and 2) volume backscattering for the microwave transfer in atmosphere; as well as 3) rain - induced damping to the wind waves and 4) rain - generated ring waves on the ocean surface, and 5) diffraction on the sharp edges of rain products. A composite radar scattering model composed...
In this study, we present coseismic and poseismic surface displacements caused by the 2015 MW 8.3 Illapel (Chile) earthquake with Sentinel-1A (S1A) and RADARSAT-2 (RS2) SAR imagery. The Central Chile, where the earthquake occurred, is a great place to apply InSAR techniques. All RS2 and S1A pairs have good coherence including one pair with a three-year long temporal baseline. However, topographically...
SST cooling episodes in the early Spring are often observed by various remote sensing measurement systems near the coast of Qingdao, a city in China's Shandong province (Figure 1). Several wind-SST interaction mechanisms that can cause colder deep water to force its way upward and drive away and subsequently replace the warmer surface water, also known as upwelling, have been previously documented...
A stripmap-mode raw data generator of an extended scene taking into consideration trajectory deviation with a non-zero squint angle is proposed. The approach utilizes a new approximation for trajectory deviations in the conical reference system. It relies on one-dimensional azimuth Fourier domain processing followed by range time-domain integration. Several simulation results are finally presented...
Ocean surface wind retrieval from Sentinel-1SAR data is scientific and technically matured at NOAA. The SAR wind has a fairly good accuracy with a standard deviation of less than 2 m/s.
Geosynchronous synthetic aperture radar (GEO SAR) is attracting growing interest due to its potential for flexible and frequent imaging over continental areas. Studies are underway to evaluate mission design options and to investigate enabling technologies. This article outlines a method for assessing mission performance which accounts for actual land-cover distributions and weather statistics to...
The tropospheric time variance within the ultra-long integration time of Geosynchronous Synthetic Aperture Radar (GEO SAR) needs to be considered for imaging. Meanwhile, because of the curved trajectory and the very complex geometry relationship between the target position and the satellite, the traditional analysis method of troposphere on low earth orbit (LEO) SAR imaging will no longer be suitable...
In this paper, a new approach developed to retrieve temporally-differenced maps of the spatial distribution of water vapor from interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) data with a horizontal resolution as fine as 20 m is described. To get a more accurate map of wet delay, we used the ERA-Interim to predict the dry delay component in the total atmospheric delay from InSAR. In addition, the...
Block adjustment can improve the accuracy of airborne InSAR data which covers large areas under the conditions of sparse control points, and it can improve the planar and vertical accuracy using a few of gound control points (GCPs). In this paper, we research the orthogonal decomposition of look vector model, three dimensional reconstruction model for airborne InSAR and the sensitivity equations at...
In this study, an atmospheric phenomenon, land breeze system, was observed on one image mode high resolution SAR image and one middle resolution optical image. WRF model was implemented with actual meteorological conditions as inputs to successfully simulate this process with some understandable discrepancies. The overpass time of ASAR and MODIS are at 10:35 AM and 11:10 AM local time in Hainan. Long...
Two extraction models applied in estimating forest height and above-ground biomass (AGB) were developed using the X-band Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data, which was acquired from the China airborne SAR system in 2013 covering part of forested area in northeast China. The models using multi-passes InSAR data for the estimations of forest height and AGB were introduced respectively...
Under the condition that the accuracy of the air-borne platform is unknown, an affine transformation model made up of unknown parameters such as rotation, scale and translation is proposed for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image geometric correction. These parameters in this model have real physical meanings compared to that in the traditional polynomial models. Based on the characteristics of geometric...
This paper reports the findings based on ALOS-1 and GRACE satellite data for the purpose of monitoring land surface subsidence due to groundwater extraction in the Ordos Basin, China. Twenty ALOS-1 PALSAR data acquired between 8 January 2007 and 19 January 2011 are utilized in the time-series InSAR interferometry (TS-InSAR) analysis while the total water storage observations derived from the Gravity...
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