Overview
- Demonstrates the benefits of the usage of fully polarimetric synthetic aperture radar data in applications of Earth remote sensing, with educational and development purposes
- Includes numerous up-to-date examples with real data from spaceborne platforms and possibility to use a software to support lecture practicals
- Reviews theoretical principles in an intuitive way for each application topic
- Covers in depth five application domains (forests, agriculture, cryosphere, urban, and oceans), with reference also to hazard monitoring
Part of the book series: Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing (RDIP, volume 25)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Yves-Louis DESNOS is Head of the Data Applications Division in the ESA EO Programme Directorate, Frascati, Italy. He is incharge of the EO Science for Society element of the Future Earth Observation envelope programme. His current activities encompass new scientific research, developing user applications, fostering industry growth and leveraging on latest platforms technology. He graduated as Engineer at E.S.T.A.C.A.(1982), obtained a specialisation degree in Space at E.N.S.A.E (1983) and started his career at Thomson-CSF as RADAR system engineer (1984). He joined ESA-ESTEC as RADAR engineer (1989) and was appointed ASAR principal engineer in the ENVISAT project (1996). He was chairman of CEOS WGCV SAR subgroup (1996-2000) and chairman of CEOS WGCV (2000-2003). Since 2006, he is also ESA Senior Advisor on SAR technologies and applications. In 2014, he received the P.R. China’s Friendship Award for the Dragon cooperation.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar
Book Subtitle: Principles and Application
Editors: Irena Hajnsek, Yves-Louis Desnos
Series Title: Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56504-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56502-2Published: 21 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56504-6Published: 24 March 2021
Series ISSN: 1567-3200
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1842
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 294
Number of Illustrations: 71 b/w illustrations, 134 illustrations in colour
Topics: Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Science Education, Agriculture, Forestry, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)