Title :
Spaceborne P-band SAR for BIOMASS mission
Author :
Ramongassié, Sophie ; Castiglioni, Shadi Khureim ; Lorenzo, Jérôme ; Labiole, Eric ; Baudassé, Yannick ; Svara, Carlo ; Luigi, Cereoli ; Hélière, Florence ; Mangenot, Cyril ; Klooster, Kees Van´t ; Fonseca, Nelson ; Diez, Hubert ; Belot, Daniel
Author_Institution :
Thales Alenia Space France, Toulouse, France
Abstract :
In the frame of the BIOMASS mission promoted by ESA for evaluating and monitoring Earth biomass, the expected performance of a P-band SAR instrument based on very large Direct Radiating Array antenna is addressed, as well as its architecture and the accommodation challenge on a platform.
Keywords :
forestry; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; vegetation mapping; ESA BIOMASS mission; Earth biomass evaluation; Earth biomass monitoring; spaceborne P-band SAR instrument; very large direct radiating array antenna; Antennas; Arrays; Biomass; Carbon; Instruments; Radio frequency; Satellites; P-band radar; SAR; biomass; carbon cycle; direct radiating antenna; forest; full-polarimetric mode; large deployable antenna;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9565-8
Electronic_ISBN :
2153-6996
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5653156
