The aim of this thesis is to evaluate the capability of radio detection and ranging (radar) data collected by the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) Phased Array type Lband Synthetic Aperture radar (PALSAR), supported by field measurements obtained through ground survey, to predict and map Above Ground Woody Biomass (AGWB) in the tropical savannas of the developing country of Belize, and ...

Using JERS-1 and PALSAR radar images provided by JAXA, we built regional and continental scale mosaics of Sahara that allowed to discover major geological features. The unique capability of L-band SAR to map subsurface structures in arid areas revealed several impact craters and paleo-rivers in

UC Irvine Previously Published Works Title Changes in West Antarctic ice stream dynamics observed with ALOS PALSAR data Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0db3r20j Journal Geophysical Research Letters, 35(12) ISSN 0094-8276 Author Rignot, E Publication Date 2008-06-28 DOI 10.1029/2008GL033365 Supplemental Material https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0db3r20j#supplemental License CC BY 4.0 ...

Enhanced methods are required for mapping the forest aboveground biomass (AGB) over a large area in Chinese forests. This study attempted to develop an improved approach to retrieving biomass by combining PALSAR (Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar) and WorldView-2 data. A total of 33 variables with potential correlations with forest biomass were extracted from the above data. How...

This paper describes the results from the recently launched SAR satellites for the purpose of subsidence monitoring over underground coal mine sites in the state of New South Wales, Australia, using differential interferometric synthetic aperture radar (DInSAR) technique. The quality of the mine subsidence monitoring results is mainly constrained by noise due to the spatial and temporal decorre...

The results of an interferometric performance analysis for spaceborne parasitic SAR configurations are presented. The analysis includes errors due to limited SNR, block adaptive quantization, range and azimuth ambiguities, and geometric decorrelation for both flat surfaces and random volumes. Relative height accuracies for three spaceborne configurations with PALSAR, ASAR and TerraSAR-X as illu...

This report presents the polarimetric calibration results of ALOS/PALSAR and discusses a stability of polarimetric calibration parameters during the calibration phase of ALOS and an influence of Faraday rotation on them. PALSAR is the first spaceborne polarimetric L-band synthetic aperture radar and its polarimetric data is expected to be utilized in various remote sensing applications. However...