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...

With global warming, permafrost is undergoing degradation, which may cause thawing subsidence, collapse, and emission of greenhouse gases preserved in previously frozen permafrost, change the local hydrology ecology system, threaten infrastructure indigenous communities. The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) world’s largest region middle low latitudes. Permafrost status monitoring QTP great significa...

Processing of ScanSAR data for interferometric applications requires careful attention to the phase and position accuracy to obtain interferometric products with high correlation and continuous phase across the bursts. We describe an interferometric processing system developed for ScanSAR data acquired by the ALOS PALSAR instrument able to produce differential interferometric products with 350 ...

Helmand River Hydrologic Studies Using ALOS PALSAR InSAR and ENVISAT Altimetry Zhong Lu a; Jin-Woo Kim b; Hyongki Lee b; C. K. Shum b; Jianbin Duan b; Motomu Ibaraki b; Orhan Akyilmaz c; Chung-Hye Read d a U.S. Geological Survey, Vancouver, Washington, USA b School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA c Department of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, Istanbul Technical Un...

Since 2014, Sentinel-1 (S1) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data have become an important source in the field of displacement detection thanks to regular acquisitions and 7.5 years temporal coverage at global level. Despite increasing number publications on role S1 landslide detection, there is still a need for research further clarify capabilities sensor applicable image analysis techniques. Pr...