Title
CoRe-H2O - A dual frequency SAR mission for hydrology and climate research.
Abstract
Taking into account the needs for improved, spatially detailed observations of snow and ice in climate research, hydrology, and glaciology, the satellite mission COld REgions Hydrology High-resolution Observatory, CoRe-H2O, was proposed to ESA. As payload a co- and cross-polarized Ku-band (17.2 GHz) and X-band (9.6 GHz) SAR was selected, because of its sensitivity to dry snow, thin sea ice, and the metamorphic state of snow, firn and ice on glaciers and ice caps. A cost-effective ScanSAR scheme with parabolic reflectors (each with multiple beams) is proposed fulfilling the requirements for swath width, spatial resolution and radiometry. The mission has been selected by ESA for further scientific and technical studies in the frame of the Earth Explorer Satellite Programme.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423021
IGARSS
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
climatology,glaciology,hydrological equipment,ice,meteorological radar,snow,synthetic aperture radar,COld REgions Hydrology High-resolution Observatory,CoRe-H2O,ESA,Earth Explorer Satellite Programme,climate research,dual frequency SAR mission,glaciers,hydrology,ice caps,ice observations,parabolic reflectors,satellite mission,snow observations,Ku-band,SAR,X-band,ice,snow
Conference
2153-6996
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-1212-9
1
0.57
References 
Authors
1
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Helmut Rott120.93
Jouni Pulliainen232597.12
Donald W. Cline38312.07
Helge Rebhan4123.55
Thomas Nagler55714.13
Simon H. Yueh6686146.14