Assessing the Impact of TEC Fluctuations on ALOS-PALSAR Images

Luca Spogli, Elvira Musicò, Claudio Cesaroni, John Peter Merryman Boncori, Giorgiana De Franceschi, Roberto Seu

2016

Abstract

Trans-ionospheric waves experience delay proportional to the Total Electron Content (TEC), being the number of free electrons present along a satellite-receiver ray path. TEC is a highly variable quantity, influenced by different helio-geophysical parameters, such as solar activity, season, time of the day, etc. Such large variability may lead to TEC spatial and temporal fluctuations over different scales, affecting the quality of the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) signals and, in turn, limiting further developments of interferometric techniques, such as InSAR (Interferometric SAR). In the specific, the need of catching qualitative and quantitative correspondences between TEC fluctuations and InSAR image streaks is a key point to drive the development of future mitigation techniques to improve the quality of the SAR imaging. In this paper calibrated TEC values, derived from the RINEX data provided by the RING (Rete Integrata Nazionale GPS) network of GPS receivers, are analysed to assess the ionosphere conditions during the ALOS (Advanced Land Observing Satellite) – PALSAR (Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar) passages over central Italy.

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Spogli L., Musicò E., Cesaroni C., Boncori J., Franceschi G. and Seu R. (2016). Assessing the Impact of TEC Fluctuations on ALOS-PALSAR Images . In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Telecommunications and Remote Sensing - Volume 1: ICTRS, ISBN 978-989-758-200-4, pages 15-21. DOI: 10.5220/0006226700150021


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@conference{ictrs16,
author={Luca Spogli and Elvira Musicò and Claudio Cesaroni and John Peter Merryman Boncori and Giorgiana De Franceschi and Roberto Seu},
title={Assessing the Impact of TEC Fluctuations on ALOS-PALSAR Images},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Telecommunications and Remote Sensing - Volume 1: ICTRS,},
year={2016},
pages={15-21},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006226700150021},
isbn={978-989-758-200-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Telecommunications and Remote Sensing - Volume 1: ICTRS,
TI - Assessing the Impact of TEC Fluctuations on ALOS-PALSAR Images
SN - 978-989-758-200-4
AU - Spogli L.
AU - Musicò E.
AU - Cesaroni C.
AU - Boncori J.
AU - Franceschi G.
AU - Seu R.
PY - 2016
SP - 15
EP - 21
DO - 10.5220/0006226700150021