Satellite SAR Remote Sensing of Great Lakes Ice Cover,Part 2. Ice Classification and Mapping

During the 1997 winter season, shipborne polarimetric backscatter measurements of Great Lakes (freshwater) ice types using the Jet Propulsion Laboratory C-band scatterometer, together with surface-based ice physical characterization measurements and environmental parameters, were acquired concurrently with Earth Resource Satellite 2 (ERS-2) and RADARSAT Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data. This polarimetric data set, composed of over 20 variations of different ice types measured at incident angles from 0° to 60° for all polarizations, was processed to radar cross-section to establish a library of signatures (look-up table) for different ice types. The library is used in the computer classification of calibrated satellite SAR data. Computer analysis of ERS-2 and RADARSAT ScanSAR images of Great Lakes ice cover using a supervised classification technique indicates that different ice types in the ice cover can be identified and mapped, and that wind speed and direction can have an influence on the classification of water as ice based on single frequency, single polarization data. Once satellite SAR data are classified into ice types, the ice map provides important and necessary input for environmental protection and management, ice control and ice breaking operations, and ice forecasting and modeling efforts.     

Mapping urban change in the UK using satellite radar interferometry

A multitemporal sequence of ERS interferometric coherence data acquired between 1993 and 1999 are utilised for automatically mapping urban change within South Wales, UK. Validation of the change map derived from the coherence data is performed using independent, multidate, digital survey data of the city of Cardiff, UK. All major building developments that have occurred within the study area are located. There is evidence to suggest that this approach is generalisable for a wide range of coherence data and to other regions with similar landscapes.     

An empirical InSAR-optical fusion approach to mapping vegetation canopy height

Exploiting synergies afforded by a host of recently available national-scale data sets derived from interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) and passive optical remote sensing, this paper describes the development of a novel empirical approach for the provision of regional- to continental-scale estimates of vegetation canopy height. Supported by data from the 2000 Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), the National Elevation Dataset (NED), the LANDFIRE project, and the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 2001, this paper describes a data fusion and modeling strategy for developing the first-ever high-resolution map of canopy height for the conterminous U.S. The approach was tested as part of a prototype study spanning some 62,000 km² in central Utah (NLCD mapping zone 16). A mapping strategy based on object-oriented image analysis and tree-based regression techniques is employed. Empirical model development is driven by a database of height metrics obtained from an extensive field plot network administered by the USDA Forest Service-Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program. Based on data from 508 FIA field plots, an average absolute height error of 2.1 m (r = 0.88) was achieved for the prototype mapping zone.     

乘法器复用技术在滑窗FIR滤波处理中的运用

随着超大规模集成电路的飞速发展,FPGA集成的硬件乘法器越来越多,内核时钟越来越快,使得FPGA在实时信号处理中得到广泛应用。介绍了FIR滤波运算的原理与硬件处理结构,通过乘法器的复用技术,解决了实现滑窗FIR滤波处理时,FPGA内部乘法器的高速运算与外部慢速数据率之间的矛盾。     

基于ADS的LFM脉压雷达系统建模与仿真

指出雷达系统基于传统仿真软件建模与仿真时的缺点;阐述了ADS(Advanced Design System)软件在雷达系统仿真中的优势;然后建立一个基于ADS软件平台的雷达系统仿真模型库.当对某种雷达系统仿真时,只需根据要求修改各个模块的参数或更换子模块即可准确迅速地搭建起系统仿真模型,大大缩减了建模所花费的时间和人力物力.以一个线形调频脉冲压缩雷达系统建模的过程为例,对ADS软件在雷达系统仿真中的应用加以介绍,并给出最终仿真结果.     

物位计测量技术分析及应用研究

雷达物位技术是物位测量技术中发展较快的技术之一,但我国雷达物位仪表的研发还比较落后。分析了雷达物位计市场所占比重最大的两种测量方式——雷达脉冲测量和连续波线性调频测量的信号处理方式,比较了它们各自的优缺点,并指出了在应用中应注意的问题;同时,探讨了物位计开发过程中的技术难点,并根据我国现有的技术条件提出了相应的解决方案。     

The Ground Process Segment of SAR Altimeter

The key innovation technology of SAR Altimeter (Synthetic Aperture Radar Altimeter)are Doppler\|beam sharpen and delay/Doppler range compensation.The cooperation of these two technologies makes it has high along track resolution and high precision in height measurement.The ground processor is the key hinge to make sure that SAR altimeter could obtain these superiorities.Many key technologies for SAR altimeter processor,such as Doppler beam\|sharpen,delay/Doppler compensation and the second range correction,multilook,echo model and gradient function for retracker,are introduced in the paper.Based on the processor and related work,some simulation work and airborne experiment were tested by the processor,and both of the quantity results show that the SAR altimeter has more potential superiorities.     

三维海战场雷达探测可视化研究与实现

雷达探测可视化是战场态势展示中的重要组成部分,是作战态势推演、态势评估等的必要依据。针对三维海 战场雷达探测可视化需求,深入研究了多干扰下雷达探测问题,给出了探测范围三维可视化模型和相应的绘制方法, 结合三维海战场环境、动态目标、干扰机干扰等战场态势要素,实现了三维海战场多干扰下雷达探测的动态绘制,从而 丰富了战场态势的展现内容,增强了三维海战场指挥决策能力。     

Characterizing 3D vegetation structure from space: Mission requirements

Human and natural forces are rapidly modifying the global distribution and structure of terrestrial ecosystems on which all of life depends, altering the global carbon cycle, affecting our climate now and for the foreseeable future, causing steep reductions in species diversity, and endangering Earth's sustainability.To understand changes and trends in terrestrial ecosystems and their functioning as carbon sources and sinks, and to characterize the impact of their changes on climate, habitat and biodiversity, new space assets are urgently needed to produce high spatial resolution global maps of the three-dimensional (3D) structure of vegetation, its biomass above ground, the carbon stored within and the implications for atmospheric green house gas concentrations and climate. These needs were articulated in a 2007 National Research Council (NRC) report (NRC, 2007) recommending a new satellite mission, DESDynI, carrying an L-band Polarized Synthetic Aperture Radar (Pol-SAR) and a multi-beam lidar (Light RAnging And Detection) operating at 1064 nm. The objectives of this paper are to articulate the importance of these new, multi-year, 3D vegetation structure and biomass measurements, to briefly review the feasibility of radar and lidar remote sensing technology to meet these requirements, to define the data products and measurement requirements, and to consider implications of mission durations. The paper addresses these objectives by synthesizing research results and other input from a broad community of terrestrial ecology, carbon cycle, and remote sensing scientists and working groups. We conclude that:

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Current global biomass and 3-D vegetation structure information is unsuitable for both science and management and policy. The only existing global datasets of biomass are approximations based on combining land cover type and representative carbon values, instead of measurements of actual biomass. Current measurement attempts based on radar and multispectral data have low explanatory power outside low biomass areas. There is no current capability for repeatable disturbance and regrowth estimates.

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The science and policy needs for information on vegetation 3D structure can be successfully addressed by a mission capable of producing (i) a first global inventory of forest biomass with a spatial resolution 1 km or finer and unprecedented accuracy (ii) annual global disturbance maps at a spatial resolution of 1 ha with subsequent biomass accumulation rates at resolutions of 1 km or finer, and (iii) transects of vertical and horizontal forest structure with 30 m along-transect measurements globally at 25 m spatial resolution, essential for habitat characterization.

We also show from the literature that lidar profile samples together with wall-to-wall L-band quad-pol-SAR imagery and ecosystem dynamics models can work together to satisfy these vegetation 3D structure and biomass measurement requirements. Finally we argue that the technology readiness levels of combined pol-SAR and lidar instruments are adequate for space flight. Remaining to be worked out, are the particulars of a lidar/pol-SAR mission design that is feasible and at a minimum satisfies the information and measurement requirement articulated herein.