Radar Remote Sensing

Applications and Challenges

1st Edition - August 27, 2022
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-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.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
Foreword
Section 1. Basis of radar remote sensing
Chapter 1. Introduction to RADAR remote sensing
1. Brief history of RADAR remote sensing
2. Optical versus RADAR remote sensing
3. Fundamentals of RADAR
4. Types of RADAR
5. Operational frequencies of RADAR
6. Backscatter mechanisms
7. Radar image characteristics
8. Application of microwave-based remote sensing
Chapter 2. Microwave components and devices for RADAR systems
1. Introduction
2. Transmission line
3. Antennas
4. Microwave filters
5. Absorbers
6. Microwave sources
7. Mode converter
8. Network analyzer
9. Some other important microwave components
10. Summary
Chapter 3. Theory of monostatic and bistatic radar systems
1. Introduction
2. Bistatic and monostatic radar system configuration
3. Radar equation
4. Radar cross-section per unit area/scattering coefficient system and measurement concepts
5. Measurement procedures
6. Procedure of bistatic specular scatterometer measurement and its calibration over natural terrain
7. Summary
Chapter 4. Review of microwave fundamentals and its applications
1. Introduction
2. Theory of radiative transfer
3. Electromagnetic interaction with discrete objects
4. Interaction with inhomogeneous media
5. Interaction with a smooth surface
6. Interaction with rough surfaces
7. Microwave interaction with natural surfaces
8. Summary
Section 2. Conventional methods for radar remote sensing
Chapter 5. Comparative flood area analysis based on change detection and binarization methods using Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar data
1. Introduction
2. Study area
3. Materials and methods
4. Results
5. Discussion
6. Conclusions
Chapter 6. Subsurface feature identification using L Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data over Jaisalmer, India
1. Introduction
2. Study area
3. Data used
4. Methodology
5. Result
6. Conclusion
Chapter 7. Terrestrial water budget through radar remote sensing
1. Introduction
2. Precipitation from radar remote sensing
3. Soil moisture from radar remote sensing
4. Water levels from radar altimetry
5. Summary and conclusions
Chapter 8. Application of synthetic aperture radar remote sensing in forestry
1. Introduction
2. Polarimetric matrix generation
3. Polarimetric speckle filtering
4. Orientation angle correction
5. Polarimetric decomposition
6. Terrain correction
7. Polarimetric classification
8. Summary and final remarks
Chapter 9. Classification of Radar data using Bayesian optimized two-dimensional Convolutional Neural Network
1. Introduction
2. Background
3. Dataset and ground data collection
4. Dataset preparation for classification
5. Methodology
6. Results and discussion
7. Conclusion
Chapter 10. Modeling and simulation of synthetic aperture radar dataset for retrieval of soil surface parameters
1. Introduction
2. Study area and collection of field data
3. Collection and processing of satellite data
4. Soil moisture modeling
5. Results and discussion
6. Conclusion
Chapter 11. Flood inundation mapping from synthetic aperture radar and optical data using support vector machine: a case study from Kopili River basin during Cyclone Amphan
1. Introduction
2. Study area
3. Material and methods
4. Result and discussion
5. Conclusion
Chapter 12. Performance assessment of phased array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar and Landsat-8 used in image classification
1. Introduction
2. Datasets
3. Methodology
4. Results and discussion
5. Conclusions and future work
Chapter 13. Evaluation of speckle filtering methods using polarimetric Sentinel-1A data
1. Introduction
2. Study site and data used
3. Methodology
4. Results and discussion
5. Conclusion
Section 3. Advanced methods for radar remote sensing
Chapter 14. Emerging techniques of polarimetric interferometric synthetic aperture radar for scattering-based characterization
1. Introduction
2. Synthetic aperture radar polarimetry
3. Polarimetric decomposition
4. Polarization orientation angle
5. Probability distributions
6. Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar interferometry
7. Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar interferometry coherence-based decomposition
8. Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar interferometry decorrelation-based decomposition model
Chapter 15. Advanced method for radar remote sensing: circularly polarized synthetic aperture radar
1. Introduction
2. Circularly polarized scattering for remote sensing
3. Specification of circular polarized synthetic aperture radar for microsatellite
4. Radio-frequency system of circular polarized synthetic aperture radar
5. Flight test and images
6. Summary and future research
Chapter 16. A processing chain for estimating crop biophysical parameters using temporal Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar data in cloud computing framework
1. Introduction
2. Methodology
3. Results and discussion
4. Conclusion
Chapter 17. Fuzzy logic for the retrieval of kidney bean crop growth variables using ground-based scatterometer measurements
1. Introduction
2. Method and observations
3. Fuzzy inference system
4. Results and discussion
5. Conclusion
Chapter 18. Monitoring tropical peatlands subsidence by time-series interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) technique
1. Introduction
2. Interferometry synthetic aperture radar for tropical peatlands
3. Case study: Sintang, Indonesia
4. Summary
Chapter 19. Toward a North American continental wetland map from space: wetland classification using satellite imagery and machine learning algorithms on Google Earth Engine
1. Introduction
2. Wetland classification systems
3. Wetland field data
4. Remote sensing data
5. Cloud computing platforms and machine learning algorithms
6. Wetland classification results for Canada
7. Conclusion
Section 4. Future challenges in radar remote sensing
Chapter 20. Challenges in Radar remote sensing
1. Introduction
2. Conclusion
Chapter 21. The study of Indian Space Research Organization's Ku-band based scatterometer satellite (SCATSAT-1) in agriculture: applications and challenges
1. Introduction
2. Background of SCATSAT-1
3. Applications in agriculture
4. Summary and conclusions
Chapter 22. Radar remote sensing of soil moisture: fundamentals, challenges & way-out
1. Introduction
2. Effect of target parameters on SAR sensitivity toward soil moisture
3. Addressing the effect of target parameters on SAR sensitivity toward soil moisture
4. Effect of the sensor parameters on SAR sensitivity toward soil moisture
5. To identify sensitive polarimetric parameters derived from fully and hybrid polarimetric SAR for soil moisture
6. Addressing the various challenges involved in ground truth planning and ground truth data collection for radar remote sensing of soil moisture
7. Addressing the challenges involved in development of a soil moisture retrieval model using radar remote sensing
8. Addressing challenges involved in SAR data processing due to a huge data volume
9. Addressing the issue of interval and scale of a soil moisture map
10. Conclusion
Index

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, India

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, India

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, USA

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, UK

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, India

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