A time series of SAR tomographic profiles of a snowpack

Conference: EUSAR 2016 - 11th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
06/06/2016 - 06/09/2016 at Hamburg, Germany

Proceedings: EUSAR 2016

Pages: 5Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Frey, Othmar (Gamma Remote Sensing, Gümligen, Switzerland / Earth Observation & Remote Sensing, ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Werner, Charles L.; Caduff, Rafael; Wiesmann, Andreas (Gamma Remote Sensing, Gümligen, Switzerland)

Abstract:
Recently, the SnowScat hardware – a tower-mounted fully-polarimetric scatterometer at X-/Ku-band – has been enhanced to also provide a tomographic profiling mode which allows to obtain high-resolution 2-D vertical profiles that may provide further insights into the electromagnetic interaction within layered snowpacks. In winter 2014/2015, a first test campaign was carried out yielding a successful proof of concept of the hardware, tomographic measurement, and basic processing concept. As a follow-up, in Nov/Dec 2015, the SnowScat device was installed at a test site on 1700m altitude close to the Grimsel pass in Switzerland. Since then it has been acquiring a time series of tomographic profiles of a snow pack. In this paper, we present and discuss first results of this new time series.