This paper gives an overview of activities and results from the Swedish part of the international calibration and validation efforts for ALOS PALSAR. Four large trihedral corner reflectors were deployed and the measured co-polar responses showed that the PALSAR system performed well and was stable over time. The cross-talk level was found to be lower than – 34.5 dB. Two different methods for es...

ضرورت دسترسی به کاربردهای وسیع تصاویر ابرطیفی سبب توسعة سیستم‌های تصویربرداری نوآورانه و اقتصادی در ثبت این شده است. به‌منظور استفاده از تصاویر، لازم است ارتباط هندسی دقیقی میان آنها فضای زمین برقرار شود فرایند نیازمند نقاط کنترلی بسیاری نکته راهکارهای اصلاح منطبق با ساختار هریک دوربین‌ها را بارز می‌کند. سنجندة (nm 400-1000) BaySpec OCI-F یکی نوآورانه‌ای که هندسة پوش‌بروم دریافت سنجنده، علاوه‌ب...

The main objective of this research is to investigate the potential combination of Sentinel-2A and ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 (Advanced Land Observing Satellite -2 Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar-2) imagery for improving the accuracy of the Aboveground Biomass (AGB) measurement. According to the current literature, this kind of investigation has rarely been conducted. The Hyrcanian fores...

This paper discusses an initial polarimetric calibration of ALOS PALSAR. ALOS was launched on January 24, 2006. PALSAR, which is one of ALOS three sensors, is the first spaceborne L−band polarimetric synthetic aperture radar. It is expected that PALSAR polarimetric data is used for many applications such as agriculture, forestry, ocean, natural disasters etc. Thus, polarimetric calibration is a...

Satellite differential interferometric synthetic aperture radar (DInSAR) has already demonstrated its potential to map co-, postand inter-seismic deformation since its successful application to the 1992 Landers Earthquake. The Ms 8.0 Wenchuan Earthquake, which occurred on 12 May 2008, was the strongest earthquake to strike China since the 1976 Tangshan earthquake. The devastation of the quake w...

We have investigated for forest plantations in Chile the stand-level retrieval of canopy height (CH) and growing stock volume (GSV) using Airborne Laser Scanner (ALS), ALOS PALSAR and Landsat. In a two-stage up-scaling approach, ensemble regression tree models (randomForest) were used to relate a suite of ALS canopy structure indices to stand-level in situ measurements of CH and GSV for 319 sta...

The relationship between ocean wind vectors and Lband normalized radar cross sections (NRCS) is examined using the Phased-Array L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR). We used PALSAR ScanSAR images with a wide range of incidence angles from 17o to 43o. More than 6,000 match-ups, each consisting of the NRCS, incidence angles, wind speeds and wind directions, were collected. The NRCS exhibits a...

Nowadays, like many other fields, DEM is widely used in the field of hydraulic engineering. In our studies, we compared DEMs (SRTM, ASTER GDEM v2, and ALOS PALSAR) for area recommended construction Shurbulak water reservoir. Contours were developed all with contours a topographic map. The SRTM PALSAR closely match on map than ASTER. Vertical differences between SRTM, GDEM2, products computed ro...

Recently land-use change has been the main concern for worldwide environment change and is being used by city and regional planners to design sustainable cities. Nakuru in the central Rift Valley of Kenya has undergone rapid urban growth in last decade. This paper focused on urban growth using multi-sensor satellite imageries and explored the potential benefits of combining data from optical se...