The purpose of this paper is to analyse and quantify the topographic effects on the antenna gain pattern correction of existing spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar systems, namely ERS-1, JERS-1, SIR-C, and X-SAR. Simulations and real SAR data of a test site are used. The corrections are carried out taking into account the local surface topography and compared with the standard method based on a...

In the history of surveying and mapping, a large volumes of topographic maps and digital elevation models have been created at various scales throughout the world. However, positional errors and geometric distortions may exist in the topographic contour maps and their derived DEMs due to inaccurate ground control and poor navigation techniques in the early years. In this paper, we present a new...

Topographic drag schemes depend on grid-scale representations of the average height, width, and orientation of the subgrid topography. Until now, these representations have been based on a combination of statistics and dimensional analysis. However, under certain physical assumptions, linear analysis provides the exact amplitude and orientation of the drag for arbitrary topography. The author p...

Most Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) measurements are performed on nearly flat areas. If strongly dipping reflections and/or diffractions are present in the GPR data, a classical migration processing step is needed in order to determine the geometries of shallow structures. Nevertheless, a standard migration routine is not suitable for GPR data collected on areas showing a variable and large top...

Rosa Ma Alsina-Pagès 1,*, Marcos Hervás 1, Ferran Orga 1, Joan Lluís Pijoan 2, David Badia 2 and David Altadill 3 1 GTM—Grup de Recerca en Tecnologies Mèdia, La Salle—Universitat Ramon Llull, C/Quatre Camins, 30, 08022 Barcelona, Spain; [email protected] (M.H.); [email protected] (F.O.) 2 GR-SETAD, La Salle—Universitat Ramon Llull, C/Quatre Camins, 30, 08022 Barcelona, Spain; joanp@salleurl...

Over the past decades, remote sensing satellite sensors have significantly increased their performance and, at same time, differed in characteristics. Therefore, making data repeatable over time and uniform with respect to different platforms has become one of most challenging issues obtain a representation intrinsic characteristics observed target. In this context, atmospheric correction role ...

land cover map is important for many urban planning and management activities. in this study, in order to produce land cover map of arak city, digital image of liss-iii scanner acquired on 16 june 2006 were employed. first of all, geometric correction with rmse 0.58 pixel was applied. considering the mountainous condition of the study area, topographic correction was applied to the image. in su...