Polarimetric calibration of Pi-SAR2

Author

Satake, Makoto ; Kobayashi, Takehiko ; Uemoto, Jyunpei ; Umehara, Toshihiko ; Kojima, S. ; Matsuoka, T. ; Nadai, Akitsugu ; Uratsuka, Seiho

Author_Institution

Appl. Electromagn. Res. Inst., Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol. (NICT), Koganei, Japan

fYear

2013

fDate

23-27 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

79

Lastpage

80

Abstract

In the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), we have developed an Xband airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR), Pi-SAR2. It can produce polarimetric SAR data with 0.3 meter spatial-resolution. The data will be useful to estimate damage, when natural disasters such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur, and to mitigate it. It needs polarimetirc calibration to fully utilize the data.

Keywords

calibration; geophysical techniques; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; NICT; National Institute of Information and Communications Technology; Pi-SAR2 polarimetric calibration; X-band airborne SAR; natural disasters; polarimetirc calibration; polarimetric SAR data; spatial-resolution; synthetic aperture radar; Antennas; Azimuth; Calibration; Communications technology; Earthquakes; Spatial resolution; Synthetic aperture radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Synthetic Aperture Radar (APSAR), 2013 Asia-Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Tsukuba

Type

conf

Filename

6705014