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Article Dans Une Revue IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters Année : 2014

Signal level comparison between TerraSAR-X and COSMO-SkyMed SAR Sensors

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Soil and vegetation biophysical parameter retrieval using synthetic-aperture-radar images requires radiometrically well-calibrated sensors. In this letter, a comparison of signal levels between TerraSAR-X (TSX) and the COSMO-SkyMed (CSK) constellation (CSK1, CSK2, CSK3, and CSK4) was carried out in order to analyze the ability to use jointly all current X-band sensors. The analysis of the X-band signal over forest stands showed a stable signal (variation lower than 1 dB) over time for each of the studied sensors, but a significant difference was observed between the different X-band sensors. Differences between radar signals were higher in HH than in HV polarization. TSX and CSK4 showed similar backscatter signals, with signal level differences of 0.6 dB in HH and 1.4 dB in HV. The CSK3 signal was observed to be lower than those from TSX and CSK4 by about 2.1 dB and 1.5 dB in HH against 3.2 dB and 1.8 dB in HV, respectively. Moreover, CSK2 and CSK1 which showed slightly different backscatter signals (within 1.1 dB in HH and 1.9 dB in HV) had signal levels lower than those obtained from TSX (2.2-3.3 dB in HH and 3.2-5.1 dB in HV for about 29° incidence angle). These results show that it is currently difficult to use jointly the available X-band satellites (CSK and TSX) for estimating the biophysical parameters of soil or vegetation. This is due to the significant difference in the radar signal level between some of the analyzed satellites, which will cause a high overor underestimation of biophysical parameters.
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hal-01122866 , version 1 (04-03-2015)

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N. Baghdadi, Mohammad El Hajj, D. Dubois Fernandez, Mehrez Zribi, Gilles Belaud, et al.. Signal level comparison between TerraSAR-X and COSMO-SkyMed SAR Sensors. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2014, 12 (3), pp.448-452. ⟨10.1109/LGRS.2014.2342733⟩. ⟨hal-01122866⟩
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