L BAND

An integrated remote sensing/field ecology project was carried out to link the use of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and other remotely sensed data to studies of landscape spatial heterogeneity and bird community ecology as a first step toward applications in predicting biodiversity. P-, L-, and C-band SAR data were collected over a section of the South Alligator River in Kakadu

SIR-C/X-SAR, a three-frequency radar to be flown on the Space Shuttle in September 1993, is described. The SIR-C system is a two-frequency radar operating at 1250 MHz (L-band) and 5300 MHz (C-band), and is designed to get four-polarization radar imagery at multiple surface angles. The X-SAR system is an X-band imaging radar operating at 9600 MHz. The discussion covers the mission concept; system design; hardware; RF electronics; digital electronics; command, timing, and telemetry; and testing.

This paper describes the design and initial results of an L band dual polarized phased array antenna for the Argentine SARAT project. The dual polarized L band antenna consists on 24 short circuit annular slots in a 2×12 configuration. The antenna elements are fed using sequential rotation in order to improve the polarization purity and the port to port isolation of the whole antenna.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING, VOL. 34, NO. 5, SEPTEMBER 1996 ... Generation of Digital Elevation Models by Using ... SIR-C/X-SAR Multifrequency Two-Pass ... Riccardo Lanari, Member, IEEE, Gianfranco Fornaro, Daniele Riccio, ...

A first evaluation of ALOS PALSAR data for forest stem volume estimation has been performed at a coniferous dominated test site in Sweden. In total, 7 Fine Beam Single polarization (FBS, look angle 34.3deg, HH-polarization) and 7 Polarimetric (PLR, look angle 21.5deg, HH-, HV-, VH-, and W- polarization) SAR images were used. In total, 56 forest stands with stem volume

An efficient Brillouin/erbium fiber laser, which operates in the 1600-nm (L-band) region, is demonstrated for potential applications in future dense-wavelength division multiplexing communication systems. The laser configuration consists of an L-band EDFA (to enable L-band amplification) where two 3-dB couplers take a portion of the generated BEFL signal and re-inject it into the single-mode fiber in order to seed a cascaded BEFL line in the same direction as the first BEFL line. An efficient BEFL can be obtained by recycling backward a 1550-nm-band amplified spontaneous emission as a secondary pump source for the unpumped EDF in the L-band EDFA section. As a result, the lasing threshold is reduced and slope efficiency is improved. A stable and strong laser comb of up to five lines with 10-GHz spacing has been obtained with a Brillouin pump of 4.8 mW and a 980-nm pump of 92 mW. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 35: 506–508, 2002; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.10650

Interferometric Point Target Analysis (IPTA) is a method that exploits the temporal and spatial characteristics of interferometric signatures collected from point targets that exhibit long-term coherence to map surface deformation. This paper demonstrates the viability of this technique for L-band data collected by the JERS-1 sensor during the time period 1992-1998. A data set covering Koga, Japan is used for