Title :
Application of ALOS data for agriculture monitoring on East Asia
Author :
Saito, Genya ; Ogawa, Shigeo ; Murakami, Takuhiko ; Ishitsuka, N.
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Agro-Environ. Sci., Ibaraki, Japan
Abstract :
ALOS has three main sensors: PALSAR, AVNIR2, and PRISM. We examined the utilization of PALSAR and AVNIR2 for agriculture monitoring. L-band and multi-polarization SAR characterize PALSAR. We have investigated the capability of SAR applications for agriculture monitoring using RADARSAT data, and AVNIR was carried on ADEOS that operated from August 1996 to June 1997. There were very little AVNIR data for agriculture monitoring because the acquisitions of data were only during the wintertime in the northern hemisphere. We alternatively examined AVNIR abilities for frequent data acquisition with pointing function using SPOT/HRV data
Keywords :
agriculture; monitoring; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; ADEOS; ALOS data; AVNIR; AVNIR2; East Asia; L-band; PALSAR; RADARSAT data; SPOT/HRV data; agriculture monitoring; frequent data acquisition; multi-polarization SAR; pointing function; winter; Agriculture; Asia; Crops; Data acquisition; Filters; Optical sensors; Remote monitoring; Remote sensing; Satellites; Speckle;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2000. Proceedings. IGARSS 2000. IEEE 2000 International
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6359-0
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2000.859592
