Title :
ALOS PALSAR products verification
Author :
Borner, T. ; Papathanassiou, Konstantinos P. ; Marquart, N. ; Zink, M. ; Meininger, M. ; Meadows, Peter J ; Rye, A.J. ; Wright, Paul ; Rosich Tell, B.
Author_Institution :
German Aerosp. Center (DLR), Wessling
Abstract :
ALOS, an enhanced successor of the Japanese Earth Resources Satellite 1 (JERS-1), was launched from JAXA´s Tanegashima Space Center in January 2006. An important contribution to the ALOS mission is the verification of PALSAR products to be distributed by the European ADEN node using the PALSAR processor developed by JAXA. A total of 28 ALOS PALSAR products have been analysed with respect to radiometric, geometric and polarimetric quality (including effects of Faraday rotation caused by the ionosphere) and a summary of the results is shown in this paper.
Keywords :
Faraday effect; artificial satellites; ionosphere; radar polarimetry; radiometry; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; AD 2006 01; ALOS PALSAR products verification; ALOS mission; Faraday rotation; JERS-1; Japanese Earth Resources Satellite 1; geometric quality; ionosphere; polarimetric quality; radiometric quality; Earth; Instruments; Ionosphere; Microwave radiometry; Pattern analysis; Polarization; Quality assessment; Remote sensing; Satellite broadcasting; Spatial resolution; ALOS PALSAR; Faraday rotation.; geometry; polarimetry; product quality assessment; radiometry;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2007. IGARSS 2007. IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Barcelona
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1211-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1212-9
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4424037
