PHARUS as a Research Platform for Tropical Forest Radar Monitoring
conference paper
Synthetic Aperture Rada¡ can be an important
tool for operational forest mapping and monitoring in the
tropics. In the development toward large scale operational use
of SAR, however, a number of issues must still be resolved,
pertaining to the performance and economics of SAR sensors
in tropical forest management applications. The fully
polarimetric, C-band, phased array airborne SAR "PHARUS"
is a presently available resea¡ch platform that can be used to
address a number of these issues, concerning the use of
airborne as well as spaceborne SAR.
tool for operational forest mapping and monitoring in the
tropics. In the development toward large scale operational use
of SAR, however, a number of issues must still be resolved,
pertaining to the performance and economics of SAR sensors
in tropical forest management applications. The fully
polarimetric, C-band, phased array airborne SAR "PHARUS"
is a presently available resea¡ch platform that can be used to
address a number of these issues, concerning the use of
airborne as well as spaceborne SAR.
TNO Identifier
95353
Publisher
ESA/ESTEC
Source title
Final Results Workshop INDREX (INDonesian Radar EXperiment), ESTEC, 9 November 1999 / Jakarta, 30 November 1999
Place of publication
Noordwijk
Pages
73-81
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