Preparing for satellite microwave systems for renewable resource management

1 September 1987

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Geocarto International

Vol. 2 (3) , 31-37
https://doi.org/10.1080/10106048709354105

Abstract

Microwave imaging systems hold great promise of meeting one of the most important requirements of data for vegetation monitoring ‐ namely data timeliness. Furthermore, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery will be routinely available within the near future with the launches of the European Space Agency, (1990), Japanese (1991) and Canadian RADARSAT (1994) satellites. Within Canada, there is an extensive program underway (Radar Data Development Program ‐ RDDP) to develop the necessary methodologies to use SAR data for renewable resource management. This program includes data acquisition using both airborne SAR imagery and ground‐based scatterometers. This paper describes this RDDP program in some detail and presents some pertinent results attained to date.

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The use of AVHRR data in operational agricultural assessment in Africa
Geocarto International, 1987
Microwave remote sensing of agricultural crops in canada
International Journal of Remote Sensing, 1986