Quasi-simultaneous measurements of the ocean surface by the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS) Convair-580 (CV-580) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) were acquired on March 20, 1988, along an ascending pass of the Geosat radar altimeter as part of the prelaunch ERS-1 Norwegian Continental Shelf Experiment (NORCSEX '88). Over a region where the SAR look direction is parallel to the wind vector...

هدف از این تحقیق تعیین مناطق دارای پتانسیل حضور چشمة آب زیرزمینی و اولویت‌بندی عوامل مؤثر در آن، با استفاده روش حداکثر آنتروپی (مدل MaxEnt)، سیستم اطلاعات جغرافیایی سنجش دور است. حاضر، چهارده شاخص تأثیرگذار شامل شاخص‌های توپوگرافیکی، زمین‌شناسی، اقلیمی، هیدرولوژیکی کاربری اراضی همچنین، جدید ارتفاع سطح نزدیک‌ترین زهکش (HAND) شده ابتدا، شاخص‌ها به دو بخش توپوگرافیکی سایر تقسیم شدند نقشة براساس آن...

Nadir-looking microwave radiometers are flown on different altimeter missions to correct the altimeter range for water vapor and cloud liquid water path delay in the troposphere. Actually four sensors, TOPEX, JASON-1, ERS2, and ENVISAT micro-wave radiometers (MWR) provide continuous measurements and the aim of this paper is to compare their measured brightness temperatures over the same hot ref...

The article examines the features of the radar altimeter reflected signal modeling over the sea surface. The model operates at different wave heights, pitch and roll angels, speeds of the aircraft and widths of the antenna pattern. A brief description of the radio altimeter influencing factors is made. Modeling results are analyzed. The complex of hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation with the ...

GANDER – for Global Altimeter Network Designed to Evaluate Risk – was an idea that was probably ahead of its time. Conceived at a time when ocean observing satellites were sometimes 10 years in the planning stage, the concept of affordable faster sampling through the use of altimeter-carrying microsats was primarily advanced as a way of detecting and tracking storms at sea on a daily basis. But...

The need for accurate geometric and radiometric information over large areas has become increasingly important. Laser altimetry is one of the key technologies for obtaining this geometric information. However, there are important application areas where the observing platform has its orbit constrained by the other instruments it is carrying, and so the spatial resolution that can be recorded by...

Single-photon-counting laser altimetry is a new measurement technique offering significant advantages in vertical resolution, reducing instrument size, mass, and power, and reducing laser complexity as compared to analog or threshold detection laser altimetry techniques. However, these improvements come at the cost of a dramatically increased requirement for onboard real-time data processing. R...

Global mean sea level rise estimated from satellite altimetry provides a strong constraint on climate variability and change and is expected to accelerate as the rates of both ocean warming and cryospheric mass loss increase over time. In stark contrast to this expectation however, current altimeter products show the rate of sea level rise to have decreased from the first to second decades of t...