CLIMACS: design of a high radiometric resolution SAR for land and sea ice applications

Author

Adrian, V. ; Suinot, N. ; Lin, C.-C.

Author_Institution

Alcatel Espace, Toulouse, France

Volume

3

fYear

1997

fDate

3-8 Aug 1997

Firstpage

1150

Abstract

CLIMACS (Climate studies of Land surfaces and Ice using Microwave ACtive Sensing) is a synthetic aperture radar and is intended to be an element of a mission dedicated to global observation of land surfaces and ice. CLIMACS will provide relevant information for the studies related to climate change. In addition further expected applications are in the areas of disaster monitoring, ice reconnaissance and forest monitoring. In order to obtain valuable geophysical products for these applications, SAR images with modest spatial resolution but very high radiometric accuracy and high temporal sampling are desirable

Keywords

geophysical equipment; geophysical techniques; oceanographic equipment; oceanographic techniques; radar equipment; remote sensing by radar; sea ice; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; CLIMACS; Climate studies of Land surfaces and Ice using Microwave ACtive Sensing; SAR; design; disaster monitoring; equipment; forest monitoring; geophysical measurement technique; high radiometric resolution; instrument; land surface; ocean; radar remote sensing; sea ice; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; vegetation mapping; Earth; Ice surface; Instruments; Land surface; Microwave radiometry; Monitoring; Sea ice; Sea surface; Spatial resolution; Telephony;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 1997. IGARSS '97. Remote Sensing - A Scientific Vision for Sustainable Development., 1997 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3836-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1997.606380

Filename

606380