The tropical and subtropical regions are characterized by their extraordinary resource environment, weather and climate. So the spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) with all day and all weather imaging capability has particular function to detect these regions. The available spaceborne radar systems take into consideration observing the tropical and subtropical regions, however, until recently, there has not been the professional radar satellite for observing these regions. This paper proposed the concept of TSARSAT (Tropical SAR Satellite), and analyzed its technological characteristics. The radar satellite will play an important role in rice growth monitoring and yield estimation, tropical rain forest monitoring, disaster monitoring and warning, ocean detection, coast belt surveying and topography mapping.

Date Published: 9 June 2006
PDF: 6 pages
Proc. SPIE 6200, Remote Sensing of the Environment: 15th National Symposium on Remote Sensing of China, 620006 (9 June 2006); doi: 10.1117/12.681182

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 6200:
Remote Sensing of the Environment: 15th National Symposium on Remote Sensing of China
Qingxi Tong; Wei Gao; Huadong Guo, Editor(s)