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Prototype Retrieval Algorithms Based on Synergistic Use of Microwave and Optical Imagers for land application

With the launch of the first Sentinel satellites, a new era in Earth observation has started that allows for the development of new approaches that use these novel observations at high temporal frequencies and fine spatial resolution with complementary information from the optical and microwave spectral domains. One very important application for is the monitoring of crops.

Germany

15/102

LMU
Performance simulator for bu-static SAR missions

This activity presents a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) simulator designed to assess the performance of bi-static SAR missions. It is a modular software able to simulate realistic SAR data (including injection of the system non-idealities), to estimate the SAR performance at radiometric and interferometric level. In order to ensure accurate measures of the bi-static performance, it simulates raw data exploiting a time-domain approach, without assumptions on the acquisition geometry. This feature makes the simulator a useful tool for the design of new SAR missions concepts.

Italy

15/720

Aresys
Characterisation of the ionospheric environment at low latitudes, application to Biomass external calibration sites

BIOMASS is a polarimetric P-band (435 MHz) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) in a dawn-dusk low Earth orbit. Its principal objective is to measure biomass content and biomass change in all the Earth’s forests. The launch of BIOMASS is envisaged for around 2020, with the mission expected to last around five years.

Italy

AO4d

Istituto Superiore Mario...
Study to implement disaster risk reduction using innovative data exploitation methods and space assets

The inexorable progress made in the past years in the field of Earth observation (EO) technologies offers a huge potential for innovation in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) applications. Interferometry processing of SAR data is one of the standard techniques for the detection, detailed characterisation and monitoring of surface motion caused by natural disasters. Yet the transfer of this technology progress to the user community needs to move forward in order to ensure that advancements in satellite technologies are transformed into services to be used by the community.

Spain

13-037

Altamira Information
Integrating SAR interferometry and GNSS for studying tectonic processes in Indonesia

Indonesia is periodically affected by severe volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, which are geologically coupled to the convergence of the Australian tectonic plate beneath the Sunda Plate. SAR interferometry (InSAR) is a satellite technology based on radar sensors that can be used to support the study and modelling of terrain movements such as tectonic motions associated with faults, and volcanic processes related to magma movement. The main advantages of InSAR is the synoptic view of wide areas, and the periodic surveying that guarantees long-term monitoring and time series analysis.

Italy

14-A-2-a

ISSIA
Characterization of the Ionospheric environment at low latitudes, application to Biomass external calibration sites

The Biomass satellite is a polarimetric P-band (435 MHz) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) in a dawn-dusk low-Earth orbit. Its principal objective is to measure biomass content and biomass change in all of Earth’s forests. The mission launch is envisaged around 2024, for a duration of five years.

Italy

AO4e

INGV
Total electron content characterization study over Africa and application to BIOMASS mission (TECA)

This study aims to investigate a feasible regional TEC temporal fluctuations product derived from ground-based monitoring stations Western Sub Saharan African region. To assess how the existing ionospheric monitoring capabilities in that region can satisfy related requirements, for a selected science application and for Biomass external calibration.

Italy

AO4f

ICTP
Change detection using Interferometric an d Polarimetric signatures in Argentina

This Study comes in support to the CONAE SAOCOM Project. The objective of this project is to accomplish a breakthrough in the development of algorithms and associated tools for change detection in Argentina, the core domain of focus being agriculture. L-band SAR is suitable for monitoring agricultural processes, particularly soil moisture, while at higher frequencies the backscattering of soil is attenuated by vegetation. Several studies also demonstrated that L-band radar signatures contain important information about crop classification and biomass.

Belgium

AO4c

CSL
Monitoring of land-related processes in South America using multi-parameter SAR: Soil and Vegetation monitoring in Pampas and Chaco forest

The forthcoming launch of SAOCOM satellites will make multitemporal L band signatures available. To take benefit from this opportunity, this study analyzes and models L band signatures of typical Argentinean crops, and proposes an algorithm able to retrieve soil moisture.

Italy

AO4a

UNIV II ROMA TOR VERGATA
Alcantara Initiative : Synergy of SAR and optical satellite images with applications in the Zambezi Basin

The study was motivated by the need to get a better, quantitative, understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of SAR and multispectral image data, taking into account the spatial and temporal at which such data are generally available and the characteristics of floodplains in Southern Africa.

The Netherlands

14-A-1-1

TU DELFT

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