Sentinel-1 for Monitoring Reservoirs: A Performance Analysis

Remote Sensing

Donato Amitrano³  Gerardo Di Martino³  Antonio Iodice³  Francesco Mitidieri¹  Maria Nicolina Papa¹  Daniele Riccio³  Giuseppe Ruello³  Salvatore Stramondo² 

[1] Department of Civil Engineering, University of Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II 132, 84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy; E-Mails:Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Napoli Federico II, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Napoli, Italy;;Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Napoli Federico II, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Napoli, Italy; E-Mails:

关键词: Synthetic Aperture Radar;    Sentinel-1;    water resources;    semi-arid regions;    reservoirs management;   

DOI  :  10.3390/rs61110676

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

In this paper we explore the performances and the opportunities provided by the European satellite Sentinel-1 for water resource management applications in low-income countries. The analysis is supported by a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) simulator, which allowed the quantification of the expected characteristics of Sentinel-1 products in three applications: interferometric digital elevation models (DEMs) generation, land cover mapping and estimation of water volumes retained by small reservoirs. The obtained results quantitatively show that Sentinel-1 data characteristics are fully suitable for most of the application already explored in the recent SAR literature.

【 授权许可】

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