Title :
BIOMASS end-to-end mission performance simulator
Author :
López-Dekker, Paco ; De Zan, Francesco ; Börner, Thomas ; Younis, Marwan ; Papathanassiou, Kostas ; Guardabrazo, Tomás ; Bourlon, Valerie ; Ramongassie, Sophie ; Taveneau, Nicolas ; Ulander, Lars ; Murdin, Daniel ; Rogers, Neil ; Quegan, Shaun ; Franco, R
Author_Institution :
Microwaves & Radar Inst., German Aerosp. Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Abstract :
This paper discusses the implementation of an end- to-end simulator for the BIOMASS mission. An overview of the system architecture is provided along with a functional description of the modules that comprise the simulator.
Keywords :
data acquisition; radar imaging; radar interferometry; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; vegetation; vegetation mapping; BIOMASS; P-band synthetic aperture radar; end-to-end mission performance simulator; fully quad-polarized image data acquistion; interferometric mode; module functional description; system architecture; Azimuth; Biological system modeling; Biomass; Covariance matrix; Faraday effect; Radar; Vegetation;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2011 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1003-2
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6050169
