Journal
REMOTE SENSING
Volume 8, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/rs8050406
Keywords
Synthetic Aperture Radar; Sentinel-1A; radiometric stability and quality; Radarsat-2
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- National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture (Irstea)
- French Space Study Center (CNES, TOSCA)
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Land monitoring using temporal series of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images requires radiometrically well calibrated sensors. In this paper, the radiometric stability of the new SAR Sentinel-1A S-1A sensor was first assessed by analyzing temporal variations of the backscattering coefficient (sigma degrees) returned from invariant targets. Second, the radiometric level of invariant targets was compared from S-1A and Radarsat-2 RS-2 data. The results show three stable sub-time series of S-1A data. The first (between 1 October 2014 and 19 March 2015) and third (between 25 November 2015 and 1 February 2016) sub-time series have almost the same mean sigma degrees-values (a difference lower than 0.3 dB). The mean sigma degrees-value of the second sub-time series (between 19 March 2015 and 25 November 2015) is higher than that of the first and the third sub-time series by roughly 0.9 dB. Moreover, our results show that the stability of each sub-time series is better than 0.48 dB. In addition, the results show that S-1A images of the first and third sub-time series appear to be well calibrated in comparison to RS-2 data, with a difference between S-1A and RS-2 lower than 0.3 dB. However, the S-1A images of the second sub-time series have sigma degrees-values that are higher than those from RS-2 by roughly 1 dB.
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