Proceedings of the Symposium on Global and Environmental Monitoring: Proceedings of the Symposium on Global and Environmental Monitoring

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Title:: Proceedings of the Symposium on Global and Environmental Monitoring

Sub title:: techniques and impacts ; September 17 - 21, 1990, Victoria Conference Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Year of publication:: 1990

Place of publication:: Victoria, BC

Publisher of the original:: [Verlag nicht ermittelbar]

Identifier (digital):: 856665355

Language:: English

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Persistent identifier:: 856669164

Title:: Proceedings of the Symposium on Global and Environmental Monitoring

Sub title:: techniques and impacts; September 17 - 21, 1990, Victoria Conference Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Scope:: XIV, 912 Seiten

Year of publication:: 1990

Place of publication:: Victoria, BC

Publisher of the original:: [Verlag nicht ermittelbar]

Identifier (digital):: 856669164

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Signature of the source:: ZS 312(28,7,1)

Language:: English

Usage licence:: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Editor:: International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Commission of Photographic and Remote Sensing Data

Publisher of the digital copy:: Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover

Place of publication of the digital copy:: Hannover

Year of publication of the original:: 2016

Document type:: Volume

Collection:: Earth sciences

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Title:: [THP-4 MICROWAVE SENSING]

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Title:: THE IMPACT OF USER REQUIREMENTS ON RADARSAT SYSTEM DESIGN. D. R. Inkster, A. Luscombe, S. Waterman

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725 THE IMPACT OF USER REQUIREMENTS ON RADARSAT SYSTEM DESIGN D.R. Inkster Intera Technologies Ltd. 101 6th Avenue S.W. Calgary, Alberta T2P 3P4 A Luscombe Spar Aerospace Ltd. 21025 Trans-Canada Highway Ste-Anne-de-Belleville, Quebec H9X 3R2 S. Waterman MacDonald Dettwiller 13800 Commerce Parkway Richmond, B.C. V6V 2J3 ABSTRACT As a result of its all weather capability, RADARSAT offers a global imaging capacity that vastly exceeds that of the visual satellites. To ensure that this international capacity is translated into cost effective and timely products the Canadian company, "RadarSat International" (RSI) has been formed. RSI has been assigned an exclusive license by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to market and distribute RadarSat products, excluding data required by the Governments of Canada and the U.S. for their own use. At present, RSI is conducting market surveys for eventual RadarSat products, and is participating in reviews of the design of the Space and Ground segments of the RadarSat with the goal of optimizing system design for future users. The interpretation and use of RadarSat products will be quite different from visual satellites. Images will be available regardless of cloud cover or solar illumination. To take advantage of this feature, a near-real time distribution system is being designed for those users who can benefit from it. Radar images themselves present quite different interpretation problems to the users. Tonal and textural information are related to different target parameters, and the viewing geometry of the radar is different from that of the aerial photograph. In an attempt to ensure that the information available from RadarSat is useful for Canadian and international applications, the requirements of users have been assessed and incorporated in the end-to-end design of the RadarSat system. This paper describes the RadarSat design with specific reference to features of the system of importance to users involved in ice and ocean surveillance, to forestry and agricultural monitoring, and to geological mapping.

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