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Ground truth measurement for the analysis of airborne SAR data recorded over Oberpfaffenhofen, FRG, 1989As a preliminary investigation to the joint multiparameter SIR-C/X-SAR shuttle experiment of NASA/JPL (USA), DLR (FRG), and PSN (Italy) which is scheduled for the year 1992 an airborne SAR campaign was conducted over Oberpfaffenhofen, FRG, in August 1989. Primarily this campaign was planned to test and verify equipment and algorithms developed at the DLR to calibrate multifrequency polarimetric SAR data. Oberpfaffenhofen is designated as one of the super test sites for the SIR-C/X-SAR experiment which will be imaged under all circumstances except severe mission errors. A super test site drives radar parameters and look directions and the recorded SAR data will be calibrated. In addition ancillary data will be available for the site. During the airborne STAR campaign conducted in the week of August 14th 1989 various sensor types were used to record remote sensing data over the calibration test site and its vicinity: the polarimetric DC-8 JPL-SAR (P-, L-, C-band), the DLR airborne SAR (C-, X-band), color infrared aerial photography (DLR), and the truck-mounted scatterometer (C- and X-band) of the Institute for Navigation, University of Stuttgart (INS). Because of this variety of different sensor types used and out of the fact that sufficiently large forested and agriculturally used areas were planned to be covered by these sensors, the interest of several German research groups involved in investigations concerning SAR land applications arose. The following groups carried out different ground-truth measurements: University of Bonn, Institute for plant cultivation (plant morphology and moisture content); University of Braunschweig, Institute for Geography (soil moisture and surface roughness); University of Freiburg, Institute for Geography (dielectric soil properties, landuse); and University of Munich, Institute for Geography (landuse inventory, plant, surface, and soil parameters). This paper presents the joint ground truth activities of the Institute for Geography, University of Munich, and the German Remote Sensing Data Center of the DLR.
Document ID
19950002611
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Bayer, T.
(Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany)
Wieneke, F.
(Technische Univ. Munich, Germany)
Winter, R.
(Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany)
Date Acquired
August 17, 2013
Publication Date
November 15, 1990
Publication Information
Publication: JPL, Proceedings of the Second Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (AIRSAR) Workshop
Subject Category
Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
Accession Number
95N70731
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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