Title :
Recent experiences utilizing TerraSAR-X for the monitoring of natural disasters in different parts of the world
Author :
Okajima, Yuki ; Yoshikawa, Kazuo ; Shibayama, Takashi
Author_Institution :
Satellite Bus. Div., PASCO Corp., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
PASCO in approximately 4 years, after the launch of TerraSAR-X (TSX), has successfully carried out a total 22 studies of disaster response for the worldwide and domestic cases. The outline and a part of the conducted cases are explained in detailed in this paper.
Keywords :
data analysis; disasters; geophysical techniques; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; PASCO; TerraSAR-X data; disaster response analysis; natural disaster monitoring method; synthetic aperture radar; Backscatter; Buildings; Earthquakes; Estimation; Monitoring; Satellites; Terrain factors; Disaster Monitoring; Synthetic Aperture Radar; TanDEM-X; TerraSAR-X;
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.2011.6050181
