{"title":"Comparison of bright-band models with dual-frequency air-borne radar data","authors":"J. Awaka, H. Kumagai, K. Okamoto","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322209","url":null,"abstract":"Backscatter and attenuation properties of bright-band are computed at 10 and 34.5 GHz by two bright-band models. The first model assumes spherical particles with the composition of each particle being a uniform mixture of ice, water, and air. The second model assumes concentric spherical particles. Each particle has a snow core covered with water. The computed results are compared with the experimental results obtained by a dual-frequency air-borne radar in the case of tropical storm which was accompanied by bright-band. Three negative exponential type drop-size distributions, i.e. Marshall and Palmer distribution, Joss drizzle distribution, and Joss thunderstorm distribution, are used in the computations. The best agreement between computations and experimental results is obtained by the first model assuming Joss thunderstorm drop-size distribution.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":312260,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IGARSS '93 - IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127290756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PC-IMega/IM-X PC-based application and training software packages for GIS and image data processing","authors":"S. Folving, M. Hoey, J. Mégier, D. Whelan","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322349","url":null,"abstract":"The PC IMega IM-X software packages have been developed under the European Collaborative Programme for training and application in environmental management in less favoured areas. It is a competent image processing tool. GIS modules have been developed for a variety of purposes.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":312260,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IGARSS '93 - IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127480175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Kiemle, G. Ehret, P. Meischner, H. G. Schreiber, A. Evtushenko, B. Kutuza, B. Petrenko, M. Smirnov
{"title":"Tropospheric water vapor structures in the clear atmosphere as observed by passive microwave and airborne LIDAR systems during CLEOPATRA 92","authors":"C. Kiemle, G. Ehret, P. Meischner, H. G. Schreiber, A. Evtushenko, B. Kutuza, B. Petrenko, M. Smirnov","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322564","url":null,"abstract":"One objective of the field experiment CLEOPATRA, Cloud Experiment Oberpfaffenhofen and Transports, May 11-July 31, 1992, was to quantify water vapor transports from soil and vegetation to the atmosphere in dependence an precipitation events and the state of vegetation, and to improve remote sensing methods from ground, aircraft and space for observing elements of the hydrological cycle. The authors report and intercompare measurements of water vapor structures in the clear atmosphere performed simultaneously with a ground based microwave system and a DIAL system on board an aircraft. Measurements for two selected days-May 22 and June 1-showing different water vapor structures are discussed.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":312260,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IGARSS '93 - IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130182094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of surficial geology on remotely sensed data of bedrock in Northern Canada","authors":"M. Schau, L. Dredge, A. Rencz, C. Chung","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322342","url":null,"abstract":"The largely unvegetated northern Melville Peninsula, located north of the Arctic Circle in northeastern Canada, consists mainly of a well exposed granitoid Archean basement complex variably overlain by Pleistocene till deposits. A comparison of a map of surficial geology with an image of Landsat TM channel 7 shows that carbonate rich tills match the white (high reflectance) part of the image. These carbonate tills were carried by glaciers from lowlands to the east of the peninsula. The tills vary in thickness from less than one meter to more than 10 meters and effectively screen out radiation form the underlaying granitoid bedrock. A potassium map, derived from airborne gamma ray spectrometry, can be adequately explained only if the blanketing of the till, which overlies granitic bedrock, is taken into account. Bedrock geology, especially in glaciated regions, cannot be adequately mapped by Landsat and airborne spectrometry unless the nature of the surficial geology is well understood.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":312260,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IGARSS '93 - IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132381088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The extraction of marginal-ice-zone thickness using gravity wave imagery","authors":"R. Shuchman, C.L. Rufenach, O. Johannessen","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322311","url":null,"abstract":"Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery of gravity waves in the Fram Strait marginal ice zone (MIZ) were acquired during 1987 using aircraft flying over the Greenland Sea. The dominant gravity wavelengths exhibit a systematic lengthening with penetration distance into the MIZ for three different regions examined. The extracted dominant wavelengths were analyzed using a linear least square fit with penetration distance and a flexure-gravity wave model to estimate mean ice thickness. The extracted mean thickness varies from about 1/spl plusmn/0.4 m near the ice edge to approximately 2/spl plusmn/0.4 m near the deepest detectable penetration of the waves, about 20 km. These thicknesses are in agreement with 31 in-situ measurements taken in the Fram Strait MIZ within two weeks of the SAR measurements.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":312260,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IGARSS '93 - IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"152 3-6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132846016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An alternative correction of atmospheric effects for NDVI estimation","authors":"A. Nogi, Weidong Sun, M. Takagi","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322137","url":null,"abstract":"Original digital data of satellite image contain not only the peculiar reflectance of the target on the Earth, but also many other kinds of effects. In the environmental monitoring, in order to detect the changes in multi-temporal images, it is necessary to correct these data to a peculiar reflectance of the target, or convert them into the same scale. Atmospheric correction is one of the most important and complicated kinds of correction. A simplified alternative method has already been proposed and successfully applied to the Thematic Mapper (TM) data of the Earth resource observation satellite LANDSAT. In this paper, the alternative atmospheric correction method was extended and applied to the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) on board of NOAA satellites. Atmospheric correction for the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) estimation is also discussed.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":312260,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IGARSS '93 - IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132981009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coastal ocean studies using shipbased scatterometer during NORCSEX'91","authors":"R. Onstott, K. Davidson","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322223","url":null,"abstract":"During November of 1991, microwave scattering measurements were obtained from a research vessel in support of coastal ocean studies in coordination with the commissioning phase of the newly launched ERS-1 spacecraft. The NORwegian Continental Shelf EXperiment provided in situ observations of wind-wave-current interactions in coincidence with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) acquisitions. The scattering measurements made from ship were acquired at 1.5, 5.25, and 9.38 GHz, VV or HH polarization, and incidence angles of 23/spl deg/ and 50/spl deg/. Insight gained from the in situ observations will be used in the interpretation of the oceanographic and meteorological features found in SAR imagery.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":312260,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IGARSS '93 - IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"119 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132154681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Statistics of X and S-band low grazing angle radar sea scatter","authors":"Dennis Trizna","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322221","url":null,"abstract":"Presents results of low grazing angle sea scatter experiments conducted using horizontally polarized, X and S-band radars for relatively calm seas and light winds. Comparisons are shown of the cumulative distributions of normalized radar cross section (NRCS) as a function of grazing angle. Differences at large NRCS suggest that scattering mechanisms in addition to Bragg scatter are more important at X-band than S-band.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":312260,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IGARSS '93 - IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130502996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imaging of atmospheric boundary layer rolls by the synthetic aperture radar aboard the European ERS-1 satellite","authors":"W. Alpers, B. Brummer","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322277","url":null,"abstract":"A synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image acquired over the Jade-Weser estuary in the German Bight of the North Sea on 20 January 1992 by the European Remote Sensing Satellite ERS-1 is analyzed. The image shows sea surface manifestations of atmospheric boundary layer rolls generated by heating of a cold air mass moving over a warm sea surface. This is inferred from the orientation of the quasi-periodic sea surface pattern which is aligned approximately with the wind direction, from the ratio of the wavelength of the pattern to the height of the boundary layer, which is close to its theoretical value of 2.8, and from the conditions encountered in the atmospheric boundary layer as measured quasi-simultaneously by radiosondes. For the first time, quantitative estimates of variations of the wind velocity at the sea surface associated with the atmospheric rolls are extracted from a spaceborne radar SAR image.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":312260,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IGARSS '93 - IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127880216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ERS-1 altimeter data processing over the Mediterranean Sea: algorithmical tailoring and validation at I-PAF","authors":"A. Bartoloni, C. Celani, F. Nirchio","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322421","url":null,"abstract":"The problem of the sea state parameters estimation in the Mediterranean Sea is discussed. In particular a method for the computation of low values of the significant wave height is described and tested on simulated data and real ERS-1 data.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":312260,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IGARSS '93 - IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125483736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}