ERS 1/2 overview of scientific results over land

Author

Rast, M.

Author_Institution

ESA, Eur. Space Res. & Technol. Centre, Noordwijk, Netherlands

Volume

2

fYear

34881

fDate

10-14 Jul1995

Firstpage

1038

Abstract

Four years after the launch of ERS-1 the ERS system has provided the user/science community with a very diversified view of our Earth and its environment. Initially the ERS satellites have been designed as an ocean and ice observation system, nevertheless their all-weather imaging capability of land made the ERS satellites a widely used tool for a better understanding of land surfaces and their dynamic processes. It is the purpose of the paper to present the major scientific results of ERS data analysis over land surfaces and summarize the achievements of the ERS data application development

Keywords

geophysical techniques; radar imaging; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; ERS-1; ERS-2; all-weather imaging capability; land surfaces; scientific results; Crops; Data analysis; Geoscience; Ice surface; Land surface; Land surface temperature; Monitoring; Ocean temperature; Oceans; Radar tracking; Satellite broadcasting; Satellites; Sea surface; Surface topography; Synthetic aperture radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1995. IGARSS '95. 'Quantitative Remote Sensing for Science and Applications', International

Conference_Location

Firenze

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2567-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1995.521131

Filename

521131