B23B:
Cutting-Edge Synthetic Aperture Radar Experiments with NASAs UAVSAR Posters

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Session ID#: 27022

Session Description:
UAVSAR (Uninhabited Aerial Synthetic Aperture Radar) instruments have recently participated in multiple campaigns and experiments exploring the unique capabilities of high resolution interferometric SARs to advance algorithm developments in several earth science disciplines. Recent experiments have produced multi-temporal data stacks to reveal ground sinking in California and the Gulf Coast. The AfriSAR campaign utilized multi-baseline L-band InSAR observations to map canopy height in Gabonese forests. The Oceans Melting Greenland mission utilized Ka-band single-pass interferometry to study glacier dynamics in Greenland. Both L-band and Ka-band SARs participated in the SnowEx campaign to study snow dynamics. Both L-band and P-band SARs participated in the Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) in Alaska and Western Canada to study environmental change and its implications for social-ecological systems. We welcome contributions highlighting recent research derived with UAVSAR data from recent campaigns with L-, P- and Ka-band instruments. Applications include surface deformation, terrestrial ecology, cryosphere, and rapid response.
Primary Convener:  Naiara Pinto, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Convener:  Yunling Lou, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Chairs:  Naiara Pinto, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Yunling Lou, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Naiara Pinto, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • C - Cryosphere
  • H - Hydrology
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1863 Snow and ice [HYDROLOGY]
4352 Interaction between science and disaster management authorities [NATURAL HAZARDS]
7290 Computational seismology [SEISMOLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Oil Slick Characterization with UAVSAR (Invited) (254026)
Cathleen E Jones, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Benjamin Holt, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Characterizing vertical heterogeneity of permafrost soils in support of ABoVE radar retrievals (266264)
Alireza Tabatabaeenejad, University of Southern California, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Los Angeles, United States, Richard H Chen, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, Agnelo Silva, METER Group, Pullman, WA, United States, Kevin M Schaefer, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A, Boulder, United States and Mahta Moghaddam, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Calibration and Validation of the GLISTIN-A Instrument: Results From the First Two Years of NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland Mission (Invited) (266479)
Delwyn Moller1, Scott Hensley2, Ala Khazendar3 and Josh K Willis3, (1)Remote Sensing Solutions, Inc., Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)JPL-Radar Science & Engrg, Pasadena, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Mapping Forest Height in Gabon Using UAVSAR Multi-Baseline Polarimetric SAR Interferometry and Lidar Fusion (288917)
Michael William Denbina, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Marc Simard, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
High-resolution mapping of wetland vegetation biomass and distribution with L-band radar in southeastern coastal Louisiana (289447)
Nathan Marc Thomas, JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, Marc Simard, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Kristin B Byrd, USGS Western Geographic Science Center, Moffett Field, United States, Lisamarie Windham-Myers, United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, United States, Edward Castaneda, Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States, Robert Twilley, Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, United States, Azure E Bevington, Louisiana State University, Oceanography, Baton Rouge, LA, United States and Alexandra Christensen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Suborbital Radar Science and Engineering, Pasadena, United States
Characterizing the temporal variability of L-band backscatter using dense UAVSAR time-series in preparation for the NISAR mission (290267)
Marco Lavalle1, Abigail Lee2, Gustavo H.X. Shiroma3 and Paul Alan Rosen3, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States

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