TY - CONF
T1 - Need for developing multi-band single and multiple pass POLinSAR monitoring platforms in air and space
AU - Boerner, W. M.
AU - Moreira, A.
AU - Papathanassiou, K. P.
AU - Hajnsck, I.
AU - Pottier, E.
AU - Ferro-Famil, L.
AU - Reigber, A.
AU - Cloude, S. R.
AU - Sato, M.
AU - Yamaguchi, Y.
AU - Yamada, H.
AU - Lee, J. S.
AU - Ainsworth, T. L.
AU - Schuler, D. L.
AU - Touzi, R.
AU - Lukowski, T.
N1 - Funding Information:
The kind assistance provided by Professor Motoyuki Sato and members of his CNEAS Laboratory, and especially by Dipl-Ing. Zheng-Shu Zhou, during the tenure of WMB at the Tohoku University, Center of Northeast Asian Studies (CNEAS) in Sendai is gratefully acknowledged. This research was supported in parts by the US Office of Naval Research.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - In this overview, reasons are provided on why we do need to place multi-modal, multi-band single and multiple pass POLinSAR monitoring platforms into air and space. The questions "on what POLinSAR monitoring can provide that POL-SAR and IN-SAR by themselves cannot accomplish" is assessed; whereupon facts and justifications on placing POL-IN-BISAR satellite clusters into space are presented. Reasons for this technology becoming a basic requirement for current, near-future and much more so for future all-day & night year'round monitoring of the terrestrial covers are analyzed in view of the un-abating and uncontrollable terrestrial population explosion, which has, does and for ever will result in unavoidable conflicts deteriorating unfortunately at times into terrorism. The pertinent questions on how to reduce the exorbitant cost for initiating this "home-globe security protection" technology are therefore also broached, and the expected benefits are laid out. The pertinent National and International airborne and space borne multi-modal, multi-band SAR remote sensing and security conflict surveillance support agencies are herewith invited for co-sponsoring our proposal, which is timely and fleets of orbiting multi-band POLinSAR platforms are urgently required to be placed into space.
AB - In this overview, reasons are provided on why we do need to place multi-modal, multi-band single and multiple pass POLinSAR monitoring platforms into air and space. The questions "on what POLinSAR monitoring can provide that POL-SAR and IN-SAR by themselves cannot accomplish" is assessed; whereupon facts and justifications on placing POL-IN-BISAR satellite clusters into space are presented. Reasons for this technology becoming a basic requirement for current, near-future and much more so for future all-day & night year'round monitoring of the terrestrial covers are analyzed in view of the un-abating and uncontrollable terrestrial population explosion, which has, does and for ever will result in unavoidable conflicts deteriorating unfortunately at times into terrorism. The pertinent questions on how to reduce the exorbitant cost for initiating this "home-globe security protection" technology are therefore also broached, and the expected benefits are laid out. The pertinent National and International airborne and space borne multi-modal, multi-band SAR remote sensing and security conflict surveillance support agencies are herewith invited for co-sponsoring our proposal, which is timely and fleets of orbiting multi-band POLinSAR platforms are urgently required to be placed into space.
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M3 - Paper
AN - SCOPUS:0242459736
SP - 422
EP - 424
T2 - 2003 IEEE IGARSS: Learning From Earth's Shapes and Colours
Y2 - 21 July 2003 through 25 July 2003
ER -
