Toward Vicarious Calibration of Microwave Remote-Sensing Satellites in Arid Environments

Toward Scheduling Over-Constrained Remote-Sensing Satellites

The high demand for satellite imagery and the relative scarcity of commercial imaging satellites combine to produce scheduling problems in which one or more of the resources is over constrained. Over-constrained scheduling problems can be problematic for constraint programming methods because of the overhead associated with propagating constraints and the time spent backtracking over a large nu...

Experimental Approach of Reflectance Based Vicarious Calibration Method for Solar Reflectance Wavelength Region of Sensor Onboard Remote Sensing Satellites

Experimental approach of reflectance based vicarious calibration of solar reflectance wavelength region of mission instruments onboard remote sensing satellites is conducted. As an example, vicarious calibration of ASTER/VNIR with estimated aerosol refractive index and size distribution that depends on atmospheric conditions is discussed. Strange solution of estimated refractive index and size ...

Radar Remote Sensing of Arid Regions

Remote Sensing of Mountain Environments

Basic Studies in Microwave Remote Sensing by

The purpose of this research is to develop scattering models in support of microwave remote sensing of earth terrains with particular emphasis on model applications to airborne SAR measurements of forest. Practically useful surface scattering models based on a solution of a pair of integral equations including multiple scattering effects have been developed. Comparisons of these models with con...