COREH2O: High-resolution X/Ku-band radar imaging of cold land processes

Author

Rott, Helmut ; Cline, Donald W. ; Duguay, Claude ; Essery, Richard ; Etchevers, Pierre ; Hajnsek, Irena ; Kern, Maximilian ; Macelloni, G. ; Malnes, Eirik ; Pulliainen, Jouni ; Yueh, Simon H.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Meteorol. & Geophys., Univ. of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

fYear

2013

fDate

21-26 July 2013

Firstpage

3479

Lastpage

3482

Abstract

The CoReH2O mission design is mature; there are two viable technical configurations, and the breadboards of key hardware components, such as the dual-polarized antenna array feeds and high power amplifiers have been built and tested. The baseline retrieval algorithm has been intensively tested using simulated and experimental data. The tests confirm that the threshold performance for SWE products can be met under a wide range of snow conditions. Data from further field campaigns by the airborne SnowSAR acquired Austria, Canada, and Alaska from November 2012 through April 2013 are being analysed to investigate retrieval performance over alpine, glacier and tundra terrains.

Keywords

geophysical image processing; hydrological techniques; remote sensing by radar; AD 2012 11 to 2013 04; Alaska; Austria; Canada; CoReH2O mission design; airborne SnowSAR; baseline retrieval algorithm; cold land processes; dual-polarized antenna array feeds; experimental data; high power amplifiers; high-resolution Ku-band radar imaging; high-resolution X-band radar imaging; key hardware component breadboards; retrieval performance; simulated data; snow conditions; Orbits; Radar; Radiometry; Spatial resolution; Sun;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2013 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Melbourne, VIC

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1114-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6723578

Filename

6723578