Name
Abstract | ||
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The principal instrument of the NASA/CNES wide-swath altimetry mission Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) is the Ka-band Radar Interferometer (KaRIn), a bistatic synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system operating on near-nadir swaths on both sides of the satellite track. There are limited reports on backscattering from natural surfaces at this short wavelength and particular observation geometry. Near-field backscattering measurements on water, as well as the first interferometric airborne SAR acquisitions at Ka-band covering the 0.6 °-3.9 ° incidence range of KaRIn, were therefore conducted. The experimental results confirm expected characteristics of near-nadir Ka-band interferometric SAR imagery, such as strong water/land radiometric contrast (typically in the order of 10 dB) and very high interferometric coherence on water. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2014 | 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2258402 | Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
backscatter,hydrological techniques,oceanographic techniques,radar imaging,radar interferometry,radiometry,remote sensing by radar,spaceborne radar,synthetic aperture radar,KaRIn,NASA-CNES wide-swath altimetry mission,SAR system,SWOT,Surface Water and Ocean Topography,bistatic synthetic aperture radar system,interferometric airborne SAR acquisition,interferometric coherence,natural surfaces,near-field backscattering measurement,near-nadir Ka-band interferometric SAR imagery,near-nadir swath,observation geometry,satellite track,water-land radiometric contrast,Altimetry,hydrology,interferometry,millimeter wave radar,oceanography,synthetic aperture radar | Radar imaging,Interferometric synthetic aperture radar,Synthetic aperture radar,Space-based radar,Side looking airborne radar,Remote sensing,Shuttle Radar Topography Mission,Inverse synthetic aperture radar,Bistatic radar,Geodesy,Mathematics | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
52 | 4 | 0196-2892 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
8 | 0.95 | 8 |
Authors | ||
11 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| R. Fjortoft | 1 | 234 | 27.36 |
| Jean-Marc Gaudin | 2 | 12 | 2.61 |
| Nadine Pourthié | 3 | 26 | 3.62 |
| Jean-Claude Lalaurie | 4 | 8 | 1.96 |
| Alain Mallet | 5 | 16 | 3.44 |
| Jean-François Nouvel | 6 | 30 | 6.44 |
| Joseph Martinot-Lagarde | 7 | 8 | 0.95 |
| Hélène Oriot | 8 | 47 | 4.91 |
| Pierre Borderies | 9 | 43 | 9.83 |
| Christian Ruiz | 10 | 8 | 1.28 |
| Sandrine Daniel | 11 | 45 | 4.48 |