Core-H2O – A Ku- and X-Band SAR Mission for Detailed Studies of Snow and Ice Processes, 7th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, EUSAR, 02–05 June 2008

Abstract — Taking into account the needs for improved, spatially detailed observations of snow and ice in climate research, hydrology, and glaciology, the satellite mission COld REgions Hydrology High-resolution Observatory, CoRe-H2O, was proposed to ESA. As payload a co- and cross-polarized Ku-band...

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Main Authors: Helmut Rott, Don Cline, Thomas Nagler, Jouni Pulliainen, Helge Rebhan, Simon Yueh
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2008
Subjects:
SAR
Ku-band
X-band
snow
ice
Sea ice
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.475.1446
http://enveo.at/uploads/media/2008_Rott_ProcEUSAR_CoreH2ODetStudSnowIceProc.pdf
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Summary:Abstract — Taking into account the needs for improved, spatially detailed observations of snow and ice in climate research, hydrology, and glaciology, the satellite mission COld REgions Hydrology High-resolution Observatory, CoRe-H2O, was proposed to ESA. As payload a co- and cross-polarized Ku-band (17.2 GHz) and X-band (9.6 GHz) SAR was selected, because of its sensitivity to dry snow, thin sea ice, and the metamorphic state of snow, firn and ice on glaciers and ice caps. A cost-effective ScanSAR scheme with parabolic reflectors (each with multiple beams) was chosen to fulfill the requirements for swath width, spatial resolution and radiometry. The mission has been selected by ESA for further scientific and technical studies in the frame of the Earth Explorer Satellite Programme.

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