Airborne SAR for Calibration of P-Band Tower Radar
Paper in proceeding, 2019

BorealScat is a tower-based radar which measures multipolarization and tomographic backscatter time series data at a forest site in Southern Sweden. In this paper, we describe a methodology for absolute radiometric calibration of BorealScat and apply it to a set of backscatter measurements at P-band (420–450 MHz). We present radiometric calibration corrections which take into account antenna gain and range variations over the tomographic resolution cell. We also use data acquired by the LORA airborne UHF-band SAR over the BorealScat site to determine the absolute radiometric calibration factor for P-band and HH- polarization. It is shown that the methodology produces consistent results for multiple SAR images.

Fjärranalys

Radar

Author

Lars Ulander

Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Microwave and Optical Remote Sensing

Albert Monteith

Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Microwave and Optical Remote Sensing

Per-Olov Frölind

Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI)

Anders Gustavsson

Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI)

Anders Haglund

Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI)

Rolf Ragnarsson

Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI)

Gunnar Stenström

Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI)

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

541-544
9781538691540 (ISBN)

IGARSS 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
Yokohama, Japan,

Tower-based radar and geophysical measurements during the BorealScat experiment

European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESA ESTEC) (4000118576/16/NL/FF/mg), 2016-11-01 -- 2018-04-30.

European Space Agency (ESA), 2016-11-01 -- 2018-04-30.

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Subject Categories

Remote Sensing

Geophysics

Signal Processing

Roots

Basic sciences

Areas of Advance

Life Science Engineering (2010-2018)

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2019.8899069

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12/8/2020