Paper Info
Title
The CoReH2O end to end simulator: Architecture and simulation results analysis
Abstract
An assessment of the impacts of the SAR system performance parameters on the Level-2 products quality is here presented for CoReH2O, that is one of the candidate Earth Explorer Core Missions and whose main objective is to estimate the water stored in the snow pack. A sensitivity analysis has been conducted exploiting the end-to-end mission performance simulator that has been developed in the framework of the feasibility studies to provide a tool for the evaluation of the mission performance up to Level-2 products. Simulations have been run for a subset of the SAR system instrumental errors, such as additive noise, radiometric bias and speckle noise. The obtained results allow to verify how the accuracy of the retrieved snow parameters, e.g. the SWE, depends on the quality of the Level-1 data and, as a consequence, on the SAR system performance parameters.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350460
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
Keywords
Field
DocType
Earth core,hydrology,radar equipment,remote sensing by radar,sensitivity,snow,synthetic aperture radar,CoReH2O,Earth explorer core mission,Level-1 data,Level-2 products quality,SAR system instrumental error,SAR system performance parameter,SWE,additive noise,cold region hydrology high-resolution observatory,radiometric bias,sensitivity analysis,simulation result analysis,snow pack,speckle noise,End-to-End mission performance simulator,SAR
Radar imaging,Space-based radar,Synthetic aperture radar,Early-warning radar,End-to-end principle,Computer science,Simulation,Remote sensing,Inverse synthetic aperture radar,Speckle noise,Snow
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2153-6996 E-ISBN : 978-1-4673-1158-8
978-1-4673-1158-8
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
2
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michele Scagliola154.63
Davide Giudici22313.01
Juan Ramon Acarreta390.97
Enrique Del Pozo410.39
Christopher Buck541.43
Del Pozo, E.610.39