Support - ASAR

Below are articles form journals which provide examples of how ASAR data has been used for geophysical, soil, oceanography, land use, ecology and classification applications.

Journal Articles

A. Geophysical

Stramondo, S., Moro, M., Doumaz, F. and Cinti, F.R. (2005)The 26 December 2003, Bam, Iran earthquake: surface displacement from Envisat ASAR interferometry', International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26(5), 1027-1034.

Fielding, E.J., Talebian, M., Rosen, P.A., Nazari, H., Jackson J.A., Ghorashi, M. and Walker, R. (2005) 'Surface ruptures and building damage of the 2003 Bam, Iran, earthquake mapped by satellite synthetic aperture radar interferometric correlation', Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, 1-15.

Guarnieri, A.M., Guccione, P., Pasquali, P. and Desnos, Y.L. (2003) 'Multi-mode ENVISAT ASAR interferometry: techniques and preliminary results', IEE Proceedings Radar Sonar Navig. 150(3), 193 - 200.

B. Soil

Zribi, M., Baghdadi, N., Holah, N. and Fafin, O. (2005) 'New methodology for soil surface moisture estimation and its application to ENVISAT-ASAR multi-incidence data inversion', Remote Sensing of Environment, 96, 485 - 496.

Zribi, M., Baghdadi, N., Holah, N., Fafin, O. and Guerin, C. (2005) 'Evaluation of a rough soil surface description with ASAR-ENVISAT radar data', Remote Sensing of Environment, 95, 67 - 76.

Holah, N., Baghdadi, N., Zribi, M., Bruand, A. and King, C. (2005) 'Potential of ASAR/ENVISAT for the characterization of soil surface parameters over bare agricultural fields', Remote Sensing of Environment, 96, 78 - 86.

C. Oceanography

Horstmann, J., Koch, W. and Lehner, S. (2004) 'Ocean wind fields retrieved from the advanced synthetic aperture radar aboard ENVISAT', Ocean Dynamics, 54, 570 - 576.

D. Land use/cover mapping

McNairn, H., Shang, J., Champagne, C., Huffman, E., Smith, A. and Fisette, T. (2005) 'A Multi-Sensor Approach to Inventorying Agricultural Land Use', 31st International Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Environment.

Lohmann, P., Tavakkoli, M. and Wissmann, U. (2005) 'Environmental Mapping using ENVISAT ASAR Data', Institue for Photogrammetry and GeoInformation.

E. Ecology

Huang, S. and Siegert, F. (2004) 'ENVISAT multisensor data for fire monitoring and impact assessment', International Journal for Remote Sensing, 25(20), 4411 - 4416.

Bartsch, A., Kidd, R., Pathe, C., Shvidenko, A. and Wagner, W. (2004) 'Idenitification of Wetlands in Central Siberia with ENVISAT ASAR WS data', ENVISAT Symposium 6-10 September 2004, Salzburg, Austria.

F. Classification

Benz, U.C. and Schreier, G. (2000) 'OSCAR - object oriented segmentation and classification of advanced radar allows automated information extraction', Proc. 2000 Int. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symp., Sydney, Australia, pp. 1913 - 1915.

Benz, U.C. and Schreier, G. (2001) 'Definiens Imaging GmbH: Object Oriented Classification and Feature Detection', IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Newsletter, 9, 16 - 20.

Further Documents

ENVISAT flyer created for 2006 Annual JISC Conference

ESA (2006) Envisat Mission [on-line]. Available from http://envisat.esa.int/ [accessed 1 Feb 2006]

Guarnieri, A.M., Guccione, P., Pasquali, P. and Desnos, Y.L. (2003) 'Multi-mode ENVISAT ASAR interferometry: techniques and preliminary results', IEE Proc.-Radar Sonar Navig, 150, (3), pp. 193 – 200.

Lillesand, T.M., Kiefer, R.W. and Chipman, J.W. (2004) Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation, 5th edn. John Wiley & Sons: New York.

Gibson, P.J., Power, C.H. and Keating, J. (2000) Introductory Remote Sensing Principles and Concepts, Routledge: London.