Publications about 'NASA'

Books and proceedings

1. Jakob Van Zyl and Yunjin Kim. Synthetic Aperture Radar Polarimetry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, SAR, Polarimetry, SAR Polarimetry, Synthetic Aperture Radar, Scattering, Microwave Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing, Polarization, Scattering Models, Microwave Scattering, Electromagnetic Scattering, calibration algorithms, polarimetric calibration, calibration, scattering from rough surfaces, surface scattering, soil moisture. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]

Articles in journal or book chapters

1. Gustavo H. X. Shiroma, Marco Lavalle, and Sean M. Buckley. An Area-Based Projection Algorithm for SAR Radiometric Terrain Correction and Geocoding. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 60:1-23, 2022. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



2. Helmut Rott, Stefan Scheiblauer, Jan Wuite, Lukas Krieger, Dana Floricioiu, Paola Rizzoli, Ludivine Libert, and Thomas Nagler. Penetration of interferometric radar signals in Antarctic snow. The Cryosphere, 15(9):4399-4419, September 2021. Keyword(s): SAR Interferometry, Snow, Arctic Snow. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



3. Xie Hu, Roland Burgmann, Eric J. Fielding, and Hyongki Lee. Internal kinematics of the Slumgullion landslide (USA) from high-resolution UAVSAR InSAR data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 251:112057, 2020. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, Slumgullion landslide, Kinematic boundaries, Geomorphologic features, UAVSAR, InSAR, DInSAR, Airborne SAR, L-band, Surface Displacements, Deformation. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



4. Ibrahim El Moussawi, Dinh Ho Tong Minh, Nicolas Baghdadi, Chadi Abdallah, Jalal Jomaah, Olivier Strauss, Marco Lavalle, and Yen-Nhi Ngo. Monitoring Tropical Forest Structure Using SAR Tomography at L- and P-Band. Remote Sensing, 11(16), 2019. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



5. Matteo Pardini, Marivi Tello, Victor Cazcarra-Bes, K. P. Papathanassiou, and I. Hajnsek. L- and P-Band 3-D SAR Reflectivity Profiles Versus Lidar Waveforms: The AfriSAR Case. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 11(10):3386-3401, October 2018. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, SAR Tomography, airborne radar, backscatter, forestry, geophysical techniques, optical radar, radar imaging, radar polarimetry, remote sensing by laser beam, remote sensing by radar, synthetic aperture radar, vegetation, vegetation mapping, NASA Land, Ice Sensor lidar datasets, AfriSAR campaign, LVIS data, plot field measurements, ground-to-volume power ratio, physical forest structure descriptors, vertical structure indices, 3-D radar reflectivity, LVIS profiles, P-band 3-D, AfriSAR case, P-band vertical backscattering profiles, synthetic aperture radar tomography, light detection, DLR F-SAR, tropical forest structure types, Forestry, Synthetic aperture radar, Laser radar, Radar tracking, L-band, Vegetation, Forest structure, full waveforms, light detection and ranging (lidar), SAR tomography (TomoSAR), synthetic aperture radar (SAR), tropical forest. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



6. Delwyn Moller, Konstantinos M. Andreadis, Kat J. Bormann, Scott Hensley, and Thomas H. Painter. Mapping Snow Depth From Ka-Band Interferometry: Proof of Concept and Comparison With Scanning Lidar Retrievals. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 14(6):886-890, June 2017. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, GLINT, Ka-band, airborne SAR, snow, snow depth, interferometry, SAR interferometry. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



7. S. K. Chan, R. Bindlish, P. E. O'Neill, E. Njoku, T. Jackson, A. Colliander, F. Chen, Mariko S. Burgin, S. Dunbar, J. Piepmeier, S. Yueh, D. Entekhabi, M. H. Cosh, T. Caldwell, J. Walker, X. Wu, A. Berg, T. Rowlandson, A. Pacheco, H. McNairn, M. Thibeault, J. Martinez-Fernandez, Angel Gonzalez-Zamora, M. Seyfried, D. Bosch, P. Starks, D. Goodrich, J. Prueger, M. Palecki, E. E. Small, M. Zreda, J. C. Calvet, W. T. Crow, and Y. Kerr. Assessment of the SMAP Passive Soil Moisture Product. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 54(8):4994-5007, August 2016. Keyword(s): hydrological techniques, moisture, remote sensing by radar, soil, L-band radar, L-band radiometer, Level 2 Passive Soil Moisture Product, NASA Distributed Active Archive Center at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, NASA SMAP satellite mission, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, SMAP Passive Soil Moisture product, V-pol Single Channel Algorithm, freeze-thaw state, high-resolution soil moisture global mapping, radar irrecoverable hardware failure, radiometer-only soil moisture product, soil moisture estimates, soil moisture retrievals, Agriculture, Data models, Microwave radiometry, NASA, Soil moisture, Spatial resolution, Brightness temperature, L-band, Level 2 Passive Soil Moisture Product, Level 3 Daily Composite Version, Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP), land emission, passive microwave remote sensing, soil moisture, tau-omega model, validation. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



8. Scott Hensley, D. Moller, S. Oveisgharan, T. Michel, and X. Wu. Ka-Band Mapping and Measurements of Interferometric Penetration of the Greenland Ice Sheets by the GLISTIN Radar. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 9(6):2436-2450, June 2016. Keyword(s): Global Positioning System, geophysical image processing, hydrological techniques, ice, image segmentation, meteorological radar, optical radar, radar interferometry, snow, synthetic aperture radar, topography (Earth), Antarctica, Earth environment, GLISTIN elevation measurement, GLISTIN instrument, GLISTIN radar, Greenland ice sheet, Jakobshavn glacier area, Ka-band cross-track interferometric radar, Ka-band mapping, NASA GLISTIN Ka-band interferometric radar, NASA Wallop airborne terrain mapper lidar measurement, climate change, ice cap topography, ice surface topography, image mosaic, interferometric penetration, interferometric penetration measurement, interferometric radar mapping system, kinematic GPS survey measurement, lidar, optical system, swath topographic measurement, Ice, Instruments, Laser radar, Sea measurements, Snow, Surfaces, Glaciers, Ka-band, ice sheets, interferometry, penetration, radar. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



9. Marco Lavalle and Scott Hensley. Extraction of Structural and Dynamic Properties of Forests From Polarimetric-Interferometric SAR Data Affected by Temporal Decorrelation. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 53(9):4752-4767, September 2015. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, Decorrelation, Temporal Decorrelation, Gaussian processes, optical radar, radar imaging, radar interferometry, radar polarimetry, synthetic aperture radar, vegetation mapping, Gaussian-statistic motion model, Harvard Forest, L-band NASA Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar, Laser Vegetation and Ice Sensor, Massachussetts, NASA lidar, RMoG model, RVoG model, USA, canopy elements, canopy motion, forest biomass estimation, forest dynamic property, forest property estimation, forest structural property, forest vertical structure, least square distance minimization, lidar-derived height, multiplicative factors, polarimetric channels, polarimetric-interferometric SAR data, polarimetric-interferometric coherence, polarimetric-interferometric radar image, random-motion-over-ground model, random-volume-over-ground model, temporal coherence, temporal decorrelation effect, tree height, volumetric coherence, volumetric decorrelation effect, wave polarization, Biomass, Coherence, Data models, Decorrelation, Radar, Vegetation, Decorrelation, interferometry, polarimetry. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



10. Alireza Tabatabaeenejad, Mariko S. Burgin, and Mahta Moghaddam. Potential of L-Band Radar for Retrieval of Canopy and Subcanopy Parameters of Boreal Forests. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 50(6):2150-2160, June 2012. Keyword(s): calibration, data analysis, forestry, remote sensing by radar, simulated annealing, soil, vegetation mapping, AD 2010 06, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, L-band radar, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, SMAP mission, Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar, absolute retrieval error analysis, calibration method, canopy parameter retrieval, central Canada boreal forests, discrete scatterer radar model, forest structure, forward scattering model, global optimization scheme, inversion method, old black spruce site, old jack pine forests, optimization algorithm, optimization problem, relative retrieval error, scattering mechanisms, simulated annealing, soil moisture information, subcanopy parameter retrieval, surface soil moisture retrieval, synthetic data, vegetation parameters, young jack pine forests, Backscatter, Dielectric constant, L-band, Radar, Scattering, Soil moisture, Vegetation mapping, Allometric relationships, Canadian Experiment for Soil Moisture in 2010 (CanEx-SM10), L-band radar, Soil Moisture Active and Passive (SMAP), boreal forest, canopy, inverse problem, microwave scattering. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



11. Mariko S. Burgin, D. Clewley, R. M. Lucas, and Mahta Moghaddam. A Generalized Radar Backscattering Model Based on Wave Theory for Multilayer Multispecies Vegetation. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 49(12):4832-4845, December 2011. Keyword(s): backscatter, radar polarimetry, remote sensing by radar, vegetation, AIRSAR data, ALOS PALSAR, Advanced Land Observing Satellite, Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar data, Australia, NASA JPL, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Phased Arrayed L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar data, Queensland, distorted Born approximation, generalized radar backscattering model, microwave interaction, multilayer multispecies vegetation, polarimetric radar backscattering coefficients, single species discrete scatterer model, soil moisture, structurally complex vegetation, surface model, surface roughness parameterization, two layer crown trunk models, wave theory, wooded savanna sites, Backscatter, Data models, Mathematical model, Scattering, Synthetic aperture radar, Vegetation, Forest scattering, multispecies vegetation, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) backscattering, wave theory. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



12. Anthony Freeman and Stephen L. Durden. A three-component scattering model for polarimetric SAR data. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 36(3):963-973, May 1998. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, Polarimetric Decomposition, Freeman-Durden Decomposition, Bragg scatter, backscatter, canopy scatter, composite scattering model, double-bounce scatter, flooding, forest, geophysical measurement technique, inundation, land surface, orthogonal surface, polarimetric SAR, radar polarimetry, radar remote sensing, radar scattering, randomly oriented dipoles, rough surface, synthetic aperture radar, terrain mapping, three-component scattering model, tropical rain forest, vegetation mapping, backscatter, forestry, geophysical techniques, radar cross-sections, radar polarimetry, radar theory, remote sensing by radar, synthetic aperture radar;. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



13. Shane R. Cloude and Eric Pottier. An entropy based classification scheme for land applications of polarimetric SAR. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 35(1):68-78, January 1997. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, Polarimetric Decomposition, Cloude-Pottier Decomposition, Polarimetry, PolSAR, Entropy, Anisotropy, Alpha, H-A-alpha, S-matrix theory, geophysical signal processing, geophysical techniques, image classification, radar imaging, radar polarimetry, radar theory, remote sensing by radar, synthetic aperture radar, average target scattering matrix parameters, coherency matrix, eigenvalue analysis, entropy based classification, geophysical measurement technique, land surface, land use, parameterization, polarimetric SAR, polarimetric scattering problem, quantitative analysis, radar remote sensing, scattering entropy, terrain mapping, three-level Bernoulli statistical model, unsupervised classifier. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



14. Marc L. Imhoff. Radar backscatter and biomass saturation: ramifications for global biomass inventory. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 33(2):511-518, March 1995. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, backscatter, forestry, geophysical techniques, radar applications, radar cross-sections, radar imaging, remote sensing by radar, synthetic aperture radar, 0.44 to 5.3 GHz, C-band, Hawaii, L-band, P-band, SAR, UHF SHF microwave, biomass saturation, biome, broadleaf evergreen forest, canopy, coniferous forest, geophysical measurement technique, global biomass inventory, land surface, phytomass, radar backscatter, radar remote sensing, vegetated surface, vegetation mapping, Space-borne SAR, SAR Tomography, Tomography. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



15. J. S. Lee, M. R. Grunes, and Ron Kwok. Classification of multi-look polarimetric SAR imagery based on complex Wishart distribution. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 15(11):2299-2311, 1994. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



16. Jong-Sen Lee, K. W. Hoppel, S. A. Mango, and A. R. Miller. Intensity and phase statistics of multilook polarimetric and interferometric SAR imagery. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 32(5):1017-1028, September 1994. Keyword(s): feature extraction, geophysical techniques, geophysics computing, image coding, image recognition, remote sensing by radar, synthetic aperture radar, complex correlation coefficient, data compression, decorrelation effects, feature classification, feature extraction, geophysical measurement technique, image classification, intensity statistics, interferometric SAR imagery, land surface imaging, multilook phase difference, multilook polarimetry, phase statistics, probability density function, radar remote sensing, scattering matrix, signal processing, speckle reduction, synthetic aperture radar, Covariance matrix, Decorrelation, Density functional theory, NASA, Phase measurement, Radar polarimetry, Radar scattering, Sea measurements, Speckle, Statistics. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



17. S.N. Madsen, H.A. Zebker, and J. Martin. Topographic mapping using radar interferometry: processing techniques. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 31(1):246-256, January 1993. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, InSAR, Interferometry, Interferometric SAR, Airborne SAR, cartography, geophysical techniques, remote sensing by radar, topography (Earth), NASA, JPL, TOPSAR, SAR, height maps, land surface, mapping, measurement, motion compensation, phase ambiguity, processing algorithm, radar interferometry, technique, terrain, three-dimensional target location algorithm, topographic radar mapper, topography. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



18. Jakob van Zyl, Bruce D. Chapman, Pascale Dubois, and Jiancheng Shi. The effect of topography on SAR calibration. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 31(5):1036-1043, September 1993. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, Radiometric Normalization, AIRSAR, Austria, Austrian Alps, C-band ERS-1 spaceborne radar system, NASA/JPL airborne SAR system, Oetztal, SAR calibration, Tombstone, United States, airborne systems, antenna pattern removal, calibration errors, digital elevation model, high relief area, local slopes, moderate relief area, radiometric corrections, scattering area removal, spaceborne SAR, synthetic aperture radar, topographic variations, calibration, geophysical techniques, remote sensing by radar, synthetic aperture radar, topography (Earth). [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



19. Ciro Cafforio, Claudio Prati, and Fabio Rocca. SAR Data Focusing Using Seismic Migration Techniques. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 27(2):194-207, March 1991. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, Range Migration Algorithm, omega-k, Wavenumber Domain Algorithm, Stationary Phase Method. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



20. Jakob J. van Zyl. Calibration of polarimetric radar images using only image parameters and trihedral corner reflector responses. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 28(3):337-348, May 1990. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, Polarimetry, Polarimetric Calibration, calibration, polarimetry, radar measurement, remote sensing, C-band, L-band, Stokes matrix, absolute amplitude, calibration, compressed data, image parameters, natural targets, polarimetric radar images, radar return, receive matrices, relative amplitude, relative phase, remote sensing, scattering matrix, system crosstalk, terrain, transmit matrix, trihedral corner reflector responses, Calibration, Crosstalk, Frequency estimation, Image coding, Parameter estimation, Pixel, Radar imaging, Radar polarimetry, Radar scattering, Transmitters. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]

Conference articles

1. D. R. Boyd, A. M. Alam, M. Kurum, A. C. Gurbuz, and B. Osmanoglu. Preliminary Snow Water Equivalent Retrieval of SnowEX20 SWESARR Data. In Proc. IEEE Int. Geosci. Remote Sens. Symp., pages 3927-3930, July 2022. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



2. X. Xu, C. A. Baldi, J. De Bleser, Y. Lei, S. Yueh, and D. Esteban-Fernandez. Multi-Frequency Tomography Radar Observations of Snow Stratigraphy at Fraser During SnowEx. In IGARSS 2018 - 2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, pages 6269-6272, July 2018. Keyword(s): CW radar, FM radar, geophysical signal processing, hydrological techniques, radar polarimetry, radar signal processing, remote sensing by radar, snow, signal processing algorithm, snow free image, snow density, ground snow pit measurement, radar design, snow layer, multiple viewing positions, radar echo, tomography technique, radar channel, three-dimensional variability, fully polarimetric frequency-modulated continuous-wave radar, triple-frequency, 2017 NASA SnowEx campaign, Earth's terrestrial snow-covered regions, multiyear airborne snow campaign, Fraser, snow stratigraphy, multifrequency tomography radar observations, frequency 17.2 GHz, size 30.0 cm, frequency 9.6 GHz, frequency 13.5 GHz, Snow, Tomography, Synthetic aperture radar, Radar polarimetry, Spaceborne radar, Radar imaging, tomography, snow, FMCW radar, SWE. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



3. Ludovic Brucker, Christopher Hiemstra, Hans-Peter Marshall, Kelly Elder, Roger De Roo, Mohammad Mousavi, Francis Bliven, Walt Peterson, Jeffrey Deems, Peter Gadomski, Arthur Gelvin, Lucas Spaete, Theodore Barnhart, Ty Brandt, John Burkhart, Christopher Crawford, Tri Datta, Havard Erikstrod, Nancy Glenn, Katherine Hale, Brent Holben, Paul Houser, Keith Jennings, Richard Kelly, Jason Kraft, Alexandre Langlois, Daniel McGrath, Chelsea Merriman, Noah Molotch, Anne Nolin, Chris Polashenski, Mark Raleigh, Karl Rittger, Chago Rodriguez, Alexandre Roy, McKenzie Skiles, Eric Small, Marco Tedesco, Chris Tennant, Aaron Thompson, Liuxi Tian, Zach Uhlmann, Ryan Webb, and Matt Wingo. A first overview of SnowEx ground-based remote sensing activities during the winter 2016-2017. In 2017 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), pages 1391-1394, July 2017. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



4. Elias J. Deeb, Hans-Peter Marshall, Richard R. Forster, Cathleen E. Jones, Christopher A. Hiemstra, and Paul R. Siqueira. Supporting NASA SnowEx remote sensing strategies and requirements for L-band interferometric snow depth and snow water equivalent estimation. In Proc. IEEE Int. Geosci. Remote Sens. Symp., pages 1395-1396, July 2017. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



5. N. Chamberlain, H. Ghaemi, L. Giersch, L. Harcke, R. Hodges, J. Hoffman, W. Johnson, R. Jordan, B. Khayatian, P. Rosen, G. Sadowy, S. Shaffer, Y. Shen, L. Veilleux, and P. Wu. The DESDynI synthetic aperture radar array-fed reflector antenna. In Proc. IEEE Int. Symposium on Phased Array Systems and Technology (ARRAY), pages 381-386, October 2010. Keyword(s): DESDynl, Earth-orbit remote sensing, NASA, SweepSAR, active switched array, array-fed reflector antenna, lidar instruments, patch antenna, radar imaging, synthetic aperture radar antenna, active antenna arrays, aperture antennas, microstrip antenna arrays, radar antennas, reflector antenna feeds, synthetic aperture radar. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



6. Leif Harcke, L. Weintraub, Sang-Ho Yun, R. Dickinson, E. Gurrola, Scott Hensley, and N. Marechal. Spotlight-mode synthetic aperture radar processing for high-resolution lunar mapping. In Proc. IEEE Radar Conference, pages 1260-1264, May 2010. Keyword(s): AD 2008 to 2009, Goldstone Solar System Radar, NASA LCROSS mission impact site, autofocus technique, time-domain back-projection, bistatic time-domain backprojection technique, bistatic SAR, change detection techniques, fast-time Doppler removal, focus-plane motion, geolocation, high-resolution lunar mapping, local topography, lunar poles, phase errors, polar format algorithm, preprocessing system, radar interferometry, radar mapping, resolution cells, spotlight imaging techniques, spotlight-mode synthetic aperture radar processing, topographic mapping, geophysical equipment, radar interferometry, remote sensing by radar, synthetic aperture radar. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



7. S. Hensley, H. Zebker, C. Jones, T. Michel, R. Muellerschoen, and B. Chapman. First deformation results using the NASA/JPL UAVSAR instrument. In Proc. Asian-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, pages 1051-1055, October 2009. Keyword(s): active antennas, radar interferometry, synthetic aperture radar, deformation results, NASA/JPL UAVSAR instrument, L-band actively electronically scanned antenna, ESTO instrument incubator program, solid earth applications, radar interferometry, Ka-band single-pass radar interferometer, NASA Gulfstream III aircraft, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, repeat-pass radar interferometric applications, 1NU measurement data, NASA, Instruments, L-band, Antenna measurements, Testing, Aircraft, Airborne radar, Solids, Earth, Radar interferometry. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]

Internal reports

1. NISAR. NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) Mission ScienceUsers' Handbook.. Technical report, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 2018. Keyword(s): L-band, NASA, ISRO, NISAR, spaceborne SAR, SAR Interferometry, deformation, displacement, ground motion, geohazards, sea ice types, detection of icebergs, forest, monitoring, changes in global forest carbon stocks, carbon stocks, Agriculture, food security, mapping of water availability, water use, soil moisture, moisture, glacier, ice sheets, climate change, maritime surveillance. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]

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