Proceedings of the Second Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (AIRSAR) Workshop

摘要

The airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) commenced in 1970, when a coherent L-band radar, originally flown on an Aerobee rocket, was refurbished for flights on the Ames Research Center Convair 990 Airborne Laboratory. The current version is called AIRSAR, a three frequency, fully polarimetric imaging radar, and flies on NASA's new McDonnell Douglas DC-8 platform. The instrument serves both as a research tool for the development of new radar remote sensing techniques, and as a facility instrument gathering SAR data in support of scientific research programs conducted by principal investigators selected by NASA. This publication contains papers presented at the Airborne Geoscience Workshop held in June 1990. The papers reflect the diversity of applications of polarimetric SAR data, and indicate the types of scientific results that are expected in the 1990s.