PLIS: An airborne polarimetric L-band interferometric synthetic aperture radar

Douglas Gray; Ruiting Yang; Heath Yardley; Jeffrey Walker; Bevan Bates; Rocco Panciera; Jorg Hacker; Andrew McGrath; Nick Stacy

PLIS: An airborne polarimetric L-band interferometric synthetic aperture radar

Douglas Gray, Ruiting Yang, Heath Yardley, Jeffrey Walker, Bevan Bates, Rocco Panciera, Jorg Hacker, Andrew McGrath, Nick Stacy

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Abstract

PLIS is an airborne synthetic aperture radar designed to be used in conjunction with a passive radiometer to collect microwave data at L-band for the remote sensing of soil moisture. The objective is to collect data to carry out a pre-deployment validation of algorithms for the NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite. Key features of the PLIS radar are described. The ground swath of PLIS is such that the incidence angle ranges from 15 degrees from nadir on the near side of the swath to 45 degrees on the far side, resulting in an almost 3:1 variation in ground range resolution across the swath. Initial investigations into the impact of this on the statistics of backscattered data are presented.

Original language	English
Pages	845-848
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - 22 Dec 2011
Event	3rd International Asia-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar - Duration: 26 Sept 2011 → …

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Conference	3rd International Asia-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
Period	26/09/11 → …

Keywords

L-band radar
Polarimetric Radar
SMAP
Soil moisture
Synthetic Aperture Radar

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