TY - GEN
T1 - Polarimetric SAR observation by ALOS
AU - Sato, Motoyuki
AU - Watanabe, Manabu
AU - Iribe, Koichi
PY - 2007/12/1
Y1 - 2007/12/1
N2 - The Japanese microwave remote sensing satellite ALOS/PALSAR was launched successfully in January 2006. We are carrying out Polarimetric calibration of the PALSAR sensor, which has the full-Polarimetric function of L-band SAR. We set corner reflectors in Ulaanbaatar in May and August 2006, and the acquired data was used to confirm the Polarimetric calibration coefficients, which will be used for the data sets delivered from October 2006. In addition, the acquired Polarimetric SAR data will provide new possibility in remote sensing. Since this is the world first satellite borne full-polarimetric SAR system, we cannot show many examples in this moment, but from airborne SAR data, which we have studied, we show some examples of Polarimetric SAR, which include tree type classification, and estimation of the orientation angle of scattering targets.
AB - The Japanese microwave remote sensing satellite ALOS/PALSAR was launched successfully in January 2006. We are carrying out Polarimetric calibration of the PALSAR sensor, which has the full-Polarimetric function of L-band SAR. We set corner reflectors in Ulaanbaatar in May and August 2006, and the acquired data was used to confirm the Polarimetric calibration coefficients, which will be used for the data sets delivered from October 2006. In addition, the acquired Polarimetric SAR data will provide new possibility in remote sensing. Since this is the world first satellite borne full-polarimetric SAR system, we cannot show many examples in this moment, but from airborne SAR data, which we have studied, we show some examples of Polarimetric SAR, which include tree type classification, and estimation of the orientation angle of scattering targets.
KW - ALOS
KW - Mongola
KW - Orientation angle shift
KW - PALSAR
KW - Polarimetry
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U2 - 10.1109/APMC.2007.4555165
DO - 10.1109/APMC.2007.4555165
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:51849086725
SN - 1424407494
SN - 9781424407491
T3 - Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference Proceedings, APMC
BT - 2007 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference, APMC
T2 - Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference, APMC 2007
Y2 - 11 December 2007 through 14 December 2007
ER -