Radar Remote Sensing
Applications and Challenges
- 1st Edition - September 1, 2022
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- Editors: Prashant K. Srivastava, Dileep Kumar Gupta, Tanvir Islam, Dawei Han, Rajendra Prasad
- Language: English
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Radar Remote Sensing: Applications and Challenges advances the scientific understanding, development, and application of radar remote sensing using monostatic, bistatic and multi… Read more
Radar Remote Sensing: Applications and Challenges advances the scientific understanding, development, and application of radar remote sensing using monostatic, bistatic and multi-static radar geometry. This multidisciplinary reference pulls together a collection of the recent developments and applications of radar remote sensing using different radar geometry and platforms at local, regional and global levels.
Radar Remote Sensing is for researchers and practitioners with earth and environmental and meteorological sciences, who are interested in radar remote sensing in ground based scatterometer and SAR systems; air borne scatterometer and SAR systems; space borne scatterometer and SAR systems.
- Covers monostatic, bistatic and multi-static radar geometry
- Features case studies, including experimental investigations, for practical application
- Includes geophysical, oceanographical, and meteorological Synthetic Aperture Radar data
Postgraduates, PhD Research scholars, professors and scientists in the microwave remote sensing and space community. Hydrologists, modelers, agricultural scientists, ocean scientists, hydro-ecologists and meteorologists, environmental consultants, and oil and gas/mining industries
SECTION 1: Basis of Radar Remote sensing
1. Introduction to radar remote sensing
2. Microwave Component and Devices for Radar Systems
3. Theory of monostatic, and bistatic radar systems
4. Review of Microwave fundamentals and its applications
SECTION 2: Conventional methods for radar remote sensing
6. Identification of Sub-surface features using L-band SAR data in Jaisalmer, India
7. Terrestrial Water Budget Through Radar Remote Sensing
8. Application of SAR Remote Sensing in Forestry
9. Classification of Radar data using Bayesian optimized 2D-CNN
10. Modeling and Simulation of SAR Dataset for retrieval of soil surface parameters
11. Flood inundation mapping from SAR and optical data using support vector machine: a case study from kopili river basin during Amphan cyclone
12. Performance assessment of Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar and Landsat-8 used in image classification
13. Evaluation of Speckle Filtering Methods Using Polarimetric Sentinel-1A Data
SECTION 3: Advanced methods for radar remote sensing
15. Advanced Method for Radar Remote Sensing: Circularly Polarized Synthetic Aperture Radar
16. A processing chain for estimating crop biophysical parameters using multi-temporal Sentinel-1 SAR data in cloud computing framework
17. Fuzzy logic for the retrieval of kidney bean crop growth variables using ground based scatterometer measurements
18. Monitoring Tropical Peatlands Subsidence by Time-Series InSAR Technique
19. Towards a North American continental wetland map from space: Wetland classification using satellite imagery and machine learning algorithms on Google Earth Engine
SECTION 4: Future challenges in radar remote sensing
21. The Study of ISRO’s Ku-band based Scatterometer Satellite (SCATSAT-1) in Agriculture: Applications and Challenges
22. Radar Remote Sensing: Challenges and future prospect
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- Language: English
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Prashant K. Srivastava
Prashant K. Srivastava is working at IESD, Banaras Hindu University, as a faculty and was affiliated with Hydrological Sciences, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, as research scientist on SMAP satellite soil moisture retrieval algorithm development, instrumentation, and simulation for various applications. He received his PhD degree from the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom. Prashant was the recipient of several awards such as NASA Fellowship, USA; University of Maryland Fellowship, USA; Commonwealth Fellowship, UK; Early Career Research Award (ECRA, DST, India), CSIR, as well as UGCJRF-NET (2005, 2006). He is leading a number of projects funded from reputed agencies in India as well as world. He was also a collaborator with NASA JPL on SMAP soil moisture calibration and validation as well as Scatsat-1, NISAR, AVIRIS-NG missions of India. Prashant made more than 200+ publications in peer-reviewed journals and published 14 books with reputed publishing house such as Springer, Taylor and Francis, AGU-Wiley, and Elsevier, and several book chapters with good citation index. He presented his work in several conferences and workshops and is acting as a convener for the last few years in EGU, Hydroinformatics (HIC), and other conferences. He is also acting as Regional Editor Asia-Geocarto International (T & F), Associate Editor-Journal of Hydrology (Elsevier), GIScience and Remote Sensing (T & F), Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment (Elsevier), Sustainable Environment (T & F), Water Resources Management (Springer), Frontiers Remote Sensing, Associate Editor- Remote Sensing-MDPI, Associate Editor- Environment, Development and Sustainability (Springer), Environmental Processes (Springer), Bull of Env and Sci Res.
Affiliations and expertise
Remote Sensing Laboratory, IESD, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, IndiaDG
Dileep Kumar Gupta
Dileep Kumar Gupta received his doctoral degree from the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, India. Dr. Dileep received several reputed awards like UGC-NET, GATE, UGC research fellowship and DST international travel support. He has published 30+ research articles in different peer reviewed journals/conference proceedings/book chapters. He is an expert in algorithm development for soil moisture and crop variables retrieval using different ground based and space borne active and passive microwave sensor. He is also an expert of different machine learning algorithms for remote sensing data processing.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics, Galgotias University, Greater Noida, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaTI
Tanvir Islam
Dr. Tanvir Islam is presently with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and specializes in remote sensing observations. Currently, he is engaged with the development of advanced microwave calibration and retrieval algorithms for NASA’s Earth observing missions.
Prior to joining NASA/JPL in 2015, he was with the NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, and worked on the development of satellite remote sensing algorithms, with an emphasis on microwave variational inversion techniques (2013-2015). He also held visiting scientist positions at the University of Tokyo, as part of the NASA/JAXA precipitation measurement missions (PMM) algorithm development team, in 2012, and at the University of Calgary, in 2015. He received the Ph.D. degree in remote sensing from the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, in 2012.
Dr. Islam was the recipient of the Faculty of Engineering Commendation from the University of Bristol (nominated for a University Prize for his outstanding Ph.D. thesis), in 2012, the JAXA visiting fellowship award, in 2012, the CIRA postdoctoral fellowship award, in 2013, the Calgary visiting fellowship award, in 2015, and the Caltech postdoctoral scholar award, in 2015. He has served as a lead guest editor for a special issue on “Microwave Remote Sensing” for the Physics and Chemistry of the Earth (Elsevier), and currently serving on the editorial board of Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (EGU) and Scientific Reports (Nature). He has published four books and more than 60 peer-reviewed papers in leading international journals. His primary research interests include microwave remote sensing, radiometer calibration, retrieval algorithms, radiative transfer theory, data assimilation, mesoscale modeling, cloud and precipitation system, and artificial intelligence in geosciences.
Affiliations and expertise
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USADH
Dawei Han
Dawei Han is professor of Hydroinformatics in the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Bristol. His research interests include hydrological modelling, Real-time Flood Forecasting, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Climate Change impact, Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System, natural hazards, and microwave remote sensing applications
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Hydroinformatics, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Bristol, UKRP
Rajendra Prasad
Rajendra Prasad is a professor at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, India. He earned his doctoral degree from the Department of Electronics Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University). He has published 60+ research articles in different peer reviewed journals/conference proceedings/book chapters. He is an expert in the bistatic scatterometer measurement and studying scattering mechanism of crop/vegetation and soil surface parameters and their monitoring using soft computational techniques. He also has experience with various remote sensing datasets like active and passive microwave, optical and hyperspectral for the accurate retrieval of soil moisture, and different vegetation properties.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, IndiaRead Radar Remote Sensing on ScienceDirect