EcoSAR, An airborne P-band Polarimetric InSAR for the measurement of Ecosystem structure and biomass
Conference: EUSAR 2014 - 10th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
06/03/2014 - 06/05/2014 at Berlin, Germany
Proceedings: EUSAR 2014
Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Rincon, Rafael F.; Fatoyinbo, Temilola; Ranson, K. Jon; Sun, Guoqing; Deshpande, Manohar; Perrine, Martin; Toit, Cornelis Du; Osmanoglu, Batuham; Beck, Jaclyn; Lu, Daniel; Bonds, Quenton (UMBC NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA)
Hale, Richard (University of Kansas/ Department of Aerospace Engineering, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA)
Abstract:
EcoSAR is an advanced airborne polarimetric and "single pass" interferometric P-band (435 MHz) SAR instrument developed at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. The instrument was designed to provide two- and three-dimensional fine scale measurements of terrestrial ecosystem structure and biomass, relevant to the study of the carbon cycle and its relationship to climate change. EcoSAR fisrt test flights and science campaign took place in late March 2014 aboard a NOAA P3 aircraft, conducting measurements over areas of the Bahamas and Costa Rica.