Ecosar: A P- band digital beamforming Polarimetric Interferometric SAR instrument to measure ecosystem structure and biomass
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Fatoyinbo, Temilola; Rincon, Rafael F.; Sun, Guoqing; Ranson, K. Jon
- Source
- 2011 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2011 IEEE International. :1524-1527 Jul, 2011
- Subject
- Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Geoscience
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Signal Processing and Analysis
Biomass
Ecosystems
Synthetic aperture radar
Instruments
Carbon
Current measurement
Wavelength measurement
- Language
- ISSN
- 2153-6996
2153-7003
In this paper we describe the EcoSAR concept, an airborne Polarimetric and Interferometric P- band SAR instrument that will provide unprecedented two- and three dimensional fine scale measurements of terrestrial ecosystem structure and biomass. These measurements are directly traceable to upcoming international radar missions and the National Research Council's Decadal Survey ecosystem measurement requirements.