Anais XI SBSR, Belo Horizonte, Brasil, 05 - 10 abril 2003, INPE, p. 2383 - 2389.

• Main Authors: Radarsat- Polarimetry Applications, Gordon C. S Taples, Joost Van, Der Sanden
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: agriculture; cartography; disaster management; forestry; geology; hydrology; oceans; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.3.7359; http://iris.sid.inpe.br:1908/col/ltid.inpe.br/sbsr/2003/02.05.11.22/doc/17_471.pdf

RADARSAT-2, planned for a mid 2004 launch, is an advanced polarimetric SAR satellite. Key features of RADARSAT-2 are high resolution (3 m), polarimetric modes, enhanced ground system providing rapid satellite tasking and near-real time data processing, improved image location accuracy, and on-board solid state recorders. The focus of this paper is on the RADARSAT-2 polarimetric applications including agriculture, cartography, disaster management, forestry, geology , hydrology, oceans, and sea ice.