Calibration of COSMO-SkyMed SAR data for hydrology applications

Author

Riccio, Daniele ; Martino, Gerardo Di ; Iodice, Antonio ; Koussoube, Youssouf ; Pinelli, Alfonso Davide ; Ruello, Giuseppe

Author_Institution

Univ. of Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy

fYear

2012

fDate

22-27 July 2012

Firstpage

844

Lastpage

847

Abstract

In this paper we present a procedure for the calibration of SAR data devoted to extract physical information from Cosmo-Skymed images. The main purpose is the extraction of land cover indexes for hydrology applications. The calibration procedure was implemented in a rural context in Burkina Faso, where along with the technical challenges we faced socio-economic problems. A set of handmade trihedral corner reflectors were deployed and their response measured from SAR images. The results were used for calibration of an erosion product.

Keywords

calibration; erosion; hydrological techniques; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; vegetation mapping; Burkina Faso; COSMO-SKYMED SAR data calibration; Cosmo-Skymed images; SAR images; erosion product; handmade trihedral corner reflectors; hydrology applications; land cover index extraction; physical information extraction; socio-economic problems; Buildings; Calibration; Clutter; Noise; Radar cross section; Remote sensing; Synthetic aperture radar; Synthetic Aperture Radar; calibration; trihedral corner reflector;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1160-1

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6351429

Filename

6351429