An engineering research and development of compact and lightweight airborne SAR for extracting inundated area

Author

Shibayama, Takashi ; Yoshikawa, Kazuo ; Yamaguchi, Yoshio

Author_Institution

Satellite Bus. Div., PASCO Corp., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

2011

fDate

24-29 July 2011

Firstpage

4150

Lastpage

4153

Abstract

Extant airborne SAR has a lot of advanced function such as full polarimetry, multi-bands, etc. However it possesses several problems and has not been becoming practical use commonly in Japan. Therefore, the aim of our project is develop the following technologies aiming at the practical use of the airborne SAR. First, past flood disasters were investigated for function requirement arrangement and design equipped with the requested airborne SAR. Next, the SAR sensor (X-band) was improved based on the previous year´s design, the proof experiment of the grasp technology such as ranges of the flood was conducted in the test field (Watarase storage basin) and the remaining issues for the real operation were revealed.

Keywords

airborne radar; disasters; floods; geophysical image processing; hydrological techniques; radar imaging; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; Japan; Watarase storage basin; X-band SAR sensor; compact lightweight airborne SAR; flood disasters; full polarimetry; grasp technology; inundated area extraction; Atmospheric modeling; Data mining; Floods; Image processing; Real time systems; Receiving antennas; Research and development; airborne SAR; flood depth; inundation area; practical use; semi real-time processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2011 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1003-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6050146

Filename

6050146