Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar For Oceanography

"This book provides basic and advanced concepts of the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), PolSAR, InSAR, PolInSAR, and all the necessary information on various applications and analysis of data of multiple sensors. It includes information on SAR remote sensing, data processing, and separate applications of SAR technology, compiled in one place. It helps readers to use active microwave imaging sensor-based information in geospatial technology and applications. Features: Covers basic and advanced concepts of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Remote Sensing. Introduces spaceborne SAR sensors. Discusses applications of SAR Remote Sensing in earth observation. Explores utilization of SAR data for solid earth, ecosystem, and cryosphere including imaging of extra-terrestrial bodies. Includes PolSAR and PolInSAR for forest aboveground biomass retrieval, and InSAR and PolSAR for snow parameters retrieval. This book aims at Researchers and Graduate students in Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry, Geoscience, Image processing, Agriculture, Environment, Forestry, Image Processing"--

This book discusses in detail the science and morphology of powerful hurricane detection systems. It broadly addresses new approaches to monitoring hazards using freely available images from the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Sentinel-1 SAR satellite and benchmarks a new interdisciplinary field at the interface between oceanography, meteorology and remote sensing. Following the launch of the first European Space Agency (ESA) operational synthetic aperture radar satellite, Sentinel-1, in 2014, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data has been freely available on the Internet hub in real-time. This advance allows weather forecasters to view hurricanes in fine detail for the first time. As a result, the number of synthetic aperture radar research scientists working in this field is set to grow exponentially in the next decade; the book is a valuable resource for this large and budding audience.

This book reviews and investigates orbit-related effects in synthetic aperture Radar interferometry (InSAR). The translation of orbit inaccuracies to error signals in the interferometric phase is concisely described; estimation and correction approaches are discussed and evaluated with special focus on network adjustment of redundantly estimated baseline errors. Moreover, the effect of relative motion of the orbit reference frame is addressed.