Title :
RADARSAT-2; are its technical capabilities expected to provide potential for remote sensing applications ?
Author :
van der Sanden, J.J. ; Budkewitsch, P. ; Flett, D.G. ; Gray, A.L. ; Hawkins, R.K. ; Landry, R. ; Lukowski, T.I. ; NcNairn, H. ; Pultz, T.J. ; Singhroy, V. ; Sokol, J. ; Toutin, Th ; Touzi, R. ; Vachon, P.W.
Author_Institution :
Natural Resources Canada, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Ottawa, Ont., Canada
Abstract :
In this paper, we preview and demonstrate how the technical improvements included in RADARSAT-2 will impact the system´s potential utility for 32 applications in the fields of agriculture, cartography, disaster management, forestry, geology, hydrology, oceans, and sea and land ice.
Keywords :
agriculture; cartography; geophysical techniques; glaciology; hydrological techniques; oceanographic techniques; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; vegetation mapping; 5.4 GHz; C-band; RADARSAT; RADARSAT-2; SAR; agriculture; applications; cartography; disaster management; forest; forestry; geology; geophysical measurement technique; glaciology; hydrology; land ice; land surface; ocean; radar remote sensing; sea ice; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; technical capabilities; terrain mapping; vegetation mapping; Agriculture; Forestry; Geology; Hydrology; Ice; Polarization; Remote sensing; Satellites; Spaceborne radar; Spatial resolution;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002. IGARSS '02. 2002 IEEE International
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7536-X
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1026151
