I thought I’d put together some random notes while learning from the Synthetic Aperture Radar: Hazards course taught by Dr Franz Meyer, the Chief Scientist of the Alaska Satellite Facility and Professor of Radar Remote Sensing at the Geophysical Institute at University of Alaska Fairbanks, through edX’s massive open online course platform.
My main motivation for enrolling in the online course was to refresh my foundational knowledge and understanding of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR), and enhance my skills on utilising more advanced techniques including interferometric SAR (InSAR), polarimetric interferometric SAR (PolInSAR), and SAR tomography (TomoSAR)—all of which are quite very exciting technologies to employ in my research.
Here, we combine Landsat and L-band SAR data for mapping changes in land cover in a tropical biodiversity hotspot undergoing rapid agricultural plantation development and forest conversion.
A few days ago, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency finally released the long-awaited global mosaics from the ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 satellite, which was launched in 24 May 2014.
[release] Data Release of Global Forest/Non-forest Map by DAICHI-2 -Contributing to measures to tackle global… https://t.co/9PHuGoLB7f
— JAXA(Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) (@JAXA_en) January 28, 2016 The 2015 data consists of the 25m mosaic data (at HH and HV polarisations) and the forest/non-forest map product, both at global coverage and free of charge for public use.