Remote Sensing with Imaging Radar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Remote Sensing with Imaging Radar write by John A. Richards. This book was released on 2009-10-08. Remote Sensing with Imaging Radar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is concerned with remote sensing based on the technology of imaging radar. It assumes no prior knowledge of radar on the part of the reader, commencing with a treatment of the essential concepts of microwave imaging and progressing through to the development of multipolarisation and interferometric radar, modes which underpin contemporary applications of the technology. The use of radar for imaging the earth’s surface and its resources is not recent. Aircraft-based microwave systems were operating in the 1960s, ahead of optical systems that image in the visible and infrared regions of the spectrum. Optical remote sensing was given a strong impetus with the launch of the first of the Landsat series of satellites in the mid 1970s. Although the Seasat satellite launched in the same era (1978) carried an imaging radar, it operated only for about 12 months and there were not nearly so many microwave systems as optical platforms in service during the 1980s. As a result, the remote sensing community globally tended to develop strongly around optical imaging until Shuttle missions in the early to mid 1980s and free-flying imaging radar satellites in the early to mid 1990s became available, along with several sophisticated aircraft platforms. Since then, and particularly with the unique capabilities and flexibility of imaging radar, there has been an enormous surge of interest in microwave imaging technology. Unlike optical imaging, understanding the theoretical underpinnings of imaging radar can be challenging, particularly when new to the field.
Imaging Radar for Resources Surveys
Imaging Radar for Resources Surveys - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imaging Radar for Resources Surveys write by J.W. Trevett. This book was released on 2013-11-11. Imaging Radar for Resources Surveys available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The use of air photographs as an aid to understanding and mapping natural resources has long been an established technique. The advent of satellite imagery was, and indeed by many still is, regarded as a very high altitude air photograph, but with the introduction of digital techniques the full analysis of imagery has become very sophisticated. Radar imagery presents the resource scientist with a new imaging technique that has to be understood and used, a technique which, although in many respects still in its infancy, has considerable applications potential for resources studies. Remote sensing now forms an element in study courses in the earth sciences in many major universities and a number of universities offer specialist post-graduate courses in remote sensing. Nevertheless there are a large number of earth scientists already working with imagery who have progressed from the air photograph base to satellite imagery. Such scientists may find themselves confronted with microwave or radar imagery or wish to use the imagery for surveys and find themselves hindered by a lack of understanding of the differences between radar imagery and optical imagery. Unfortunately reference to much of the literature will not be of very great help, many excellent text books on the theory and interaction of microwaves, on instrument design and construction and on the research carried out on specific target types exist, most of these are however written for specialists who are usually physicists not earth scientists.
Polarimetric Radar Imaging
Polarimetric Radar Imaging - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Polarimetric Radar Imaging write by Jong-Sen Lee. This book was released on 2017-12-19. Polarimetric Radar Imaging available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The recent launches of three fully polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) satellites have shown that polarimetric radar imaging can provide abundant data on the Earth’s environment, such as biomass and forest height estimation, snow cover mapping, glacier monitoring, and damage assessment. Written by two of the most recognized leaders in this field, Polarimetric Radar Imaging: From Basics to Applications presents polarimetric radar imaging and processing techniques and shows how to develop remote sensing applications using PolSAR imaging radar. The book provides a substantial and balanced introduction to the basic theory and advanced concepts of polarimetric scattering mechanisms, speckle statistics and speckle filtering, polarimetric information analysis and extraction techniques, and applications typical to radar polarimetric remote sensing. It explains the importance of wave polarization theory and the speckle phenomenon in the information retrieval problem of microwave imaging and inverse scattering. The authors demonstrate how to devise intelligent information extraction algorithms for remote sensing applications. They also describe more advanced polarimetric analysis techniques for polarimetric target decompositions, polarization orientation effects, polarimetric scattering modeling, speckle filtering, terrain and forest classification, manmade target analysis, and PolSAR interferometry. With sample PolSAR data sets and software available for download, this self-contained, hands-on book encourages you to analyze space-borne and airborne PolSAR and polarimetric interferometric SAR (Pol-InSAR) data and then develop applications using this data.
Imaging Radar Remote Sensing
Imaging Radar Remote Sensing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imaging Radar Remote Sensing write by John Ford. This book was released on . Imaging Radar Remote Sensing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Manual of Remote Sensing: Principles and applications of imaging radar
Manual of Remote Sensing: Principles and applications of imaging radar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Manual of Remote Sensing: Principles and applications of imaging radar write by Robert A. Ryerson. This book was released on 1998. Manual of Remote Sensing: Principles and applications of imaging radar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
