Title :
A calibrated 35 GHz airborne scatterometer for NASA´s surface water and ocean topography mission
Author :
Gerard Ruiz Carregal;Tom Hartley;Paul Siqueira;Jan-Willem De Bleser;Mark S. Haynes;Daniel Esteban-Fernandez;Thomas Millette
Author_Institution :
Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
fDate :
7/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
In this paper, an airborne Ka-band (35 GHz) FMCW scatterometer and its preliminary results are presented. The paper describes the system, the calibration and the data processing needed to study the response of different targets to the scatterometer. The results obtained in the first flights include normalized radar cross-section measurements of inland water bodies and a tree height estimation algorithm.
Keywords :
"Radar cross-sections","Vegetation","Radar antennas","Receiving antennas"
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2015 IEEE International
Electronic_ISBN :
2153-7003
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2015.7327041
