Title :
Environmental monitoring with remote sensing data from Chinese spacecraft
Author :
Huadong, Guo ; Weimin, Wang ; Changlin, Wang ; Ruofei, Zhong ; Boqin, Zhu ; JinSong, Chen
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China
Abstract :
Five spacecrafts named in the Shenzhou series (SZ in abbreviation) have been launched during 1999 to 2003 in China. Earth observation is a major scientific mission of the SZ spacecrafts. SZ-3 carried a 34-band medium resolution spectrometer, and SZ-4 was equipped with multimode microwave sensors composing a microwave scatterometer, radiometer, and radar altimeter. Our research group made "spacecraft-aircraft-ground" synchronous measurements. This paper presents the review of the mission of SZ spacecrafts, and gives the results of data processing and environment and geoscience applications.
Keywords :
data acquisition; microwave detectors; moisture; radar altimetry; radiometry; remote sensing; soil; AD 1999 to 2003; Chinese Shenzhou spacecraft series; Earth observation; data processing; environmental monitoring; geoscience application; medium resolution spectrometer; microwave radiometer; microwave scatterometer; multimode microwave sensor; radar altimeter; remote sensing data; spacecraft-aircraft-ground synchronous measurement; Data processing; Earth; Microwave radiometry; Microwave sensors; Radar measurements; Radar scattering; Remote monitoring; Space vehicles; Spaceborne radar; Spectroscopy;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004. IGARSS '04. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8742-2
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2004.1368933
