Spaceborne polarimetric SAR interferometry enables quantitative measurements of important bio- and geophysical parameters of the Earth surface on a global scale. We will first give a short review about actual and planned spaceborne SAR missions that can provide the observation space required for the derivation of Pol-InSAR products. This overview includes both repeat pass mission scenarios like ALOS/PalSAR, TerraSAR-L and Radarsat II, as well as single-pass mission scenarios like a fully-polarimetric Interferometric Cartwheel or TanDEM- X. The Pol-InSAR performance of the suggested mission scenarios will then be analysed by introducing the new concept of a phase tube. This concept enables an optimization of the system parameters and a quantitative comparison between different sensor configurations. The performance analysis for the investigated repeat pass mission scenarios reveals that major limitations have to be expected from temporal decorrelation. Some suggestions will be made to alleviate this performance loss by appropriate orbit refinement. Furthermore, important aspects in the design of future Pol-InSAR sensors will be addressed and we demonstrate the potential benefits arising from the use of bi- and multistatic single pass sensor configurations.


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    Title :

    Spaceborne Polarimetric SAR Interferometry: Performance Analysis and Mission Concepts



    Conference:

    2005 ; Frascati, Italy



    Publication date :

    2005


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




    Spaceborne Polarimetric SAR Interferometry: Performance Analysis and Mission Concepts

    Krieger, Gerhard / Papathanassiou, Konstantinos / Cloude, Shane | German Aerospace Center (DLR) | 2005

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    Krieger, G. / Papathanassiou, K. / Cloude, S. et al. | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2005