The objectives of my proposal are to calibrate and validate the polarimetric data acquired by ALOS (Advanced land observing satellite)/PALSAR (Phased array type L-band synthetic aperture radar). In this report, we show the polarimetric calibration parameter of PALSAR derived by Quegan method and Amazon data. Moreover, we confirm the accuracy of Faraday rotation angle derived from PALSAR data as...

High-resolution satellite images (HRSI) at sub-5m footprint are becoming increasingly available. A set of algorithms for processing of HRSI has been developed at the Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry (IGP), ETH Zurich and realized in a software suite called SAT-PP (Satellite Image Precision Processing). The SAT-PP features mainly include: GCP measurements, image georeferencing with RPC ap...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) generated the global digital elevation/surface model (DEM/DSM) and orthorectified image (ORI) using the archived data of the Panchromatic Remote-sensing Instrument for Stereo Mapping (PRISM) onboard the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS, nicknamed “Daichi”), which was operated from 2006 to 2011. PRISM consisted of three panchromatic radiometer...

The study presents the results of interferometric processing and analysis ALOS-1/2 Sentinel-1 SAR data acquired over landslide territory Bureya river bank in 2006–2018. novelty is that, for first time, joint measurements movement with meteorological information time series SRTM-X, ALOS-1, TanDEM-X digital elevation models were performed. allowed us to make a conclusion that was evolving within ...

The Earth Observation Center (EOC) of DLR realizes processors for ALOS and EnMAP high-resolution optical remote sensing satellite missions. The functional and developmental similarities and differences of the DLR processors are analyzed. It turns out that despite or precisely because of pan-chromatic and multispectral versus hyperspectral imaging as well as the postversus pre-launch establishme...

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is currently involved in the development of active membrane antenna technology for SAR applications. To qualify this new technology, it is proposed to develop a small satellite L-band SAR demonstrator. Such a demonstrator could be placed on the same orbit than the ALOS satellite for a tandem interferometric mission. The paper describes the initial science objecti...