A first comparison of Cosmo-SkyMed and TerraSAR-X data over Chamonix Mont-Blanc test-site

Author

Nicolas, J.-M. ; Trouvé, E. ; Fallourd, R. ; Vernier, F. ; Tupin, F. ; Harant, O. ; Gay, M. ; Moreau, L.

Author_Institution

Lab. de Traitement et Commun. de l´´Inf., Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France

fYear

2012

fDate

22-27 July 2012

Firstpage

5586

Lastpage

5589

Abstract

This paper presents the first results obtained with satellite image time series (SITS) acquired by Cosmo-SkyMed (CSK) over the Chamonix Mont-Blanc test-site. A CSK SITS made of 39 images is merged with a TerraSAR-X SITS made of 26 images by using the orbital information and co-registration tools developed in the EFIDIR project. The results are illustrated by the computation of speckle-free images by temporal averaging, by the generation and comparison of topographic interferograms and by the measure of glacier displacement fields by amplitude correlation.

Keywords

geophysical image processing; geophysical techniques; glaciology; image registration; radar imaging; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; time series; Chamonix Mont-Blanc test-site; Cosmo-SkyMed data; EFIDIR project; TerraSAR-X data; amplitude correlation analysis; coregistration tools; glacier displacement fields; orbital information; satellite image time series; speckle-free image computation; topographic interferograms; Correlation; Displacement measurement; Extraterrestrial measurements; Monitoring; Satellites; Synthetic aperture radar; Time series analysis; Cosmo-SkyMed; SAR images time series; TerraSAR-X; correlation; glaciers; interferometry;

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.2012.6352053

Filename

6352053