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Operational Applications of Radar Images

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This chapter provides some examples of the operational uses of satellite radar images. These include the uses of polarimetric radar images for crop classification and earthquake damage assessment, radar image fusion for mineral exploration, interferometric SAR techniques for landslide and volcanic monitoring, multidate radar image enhancement techniques for oil spill monitoring and flood mapping, and sea ice mapping from enhanced ScanSAR images. In the near future, new applications will be developed from current and future advanced SAR missions involving their high resolution, rapid revisits, and polarimetric capabilities.

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  1. Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, 580 Rochester St, K1A0E4, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Vern Singhroy

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  1. Executive Board,International Assoc. for the,Advancement of Space Safety, George Washington University, Arlington, Virginia, USA

    Joseph N. Pelton

  2. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

    Scott Madry

  3. CRECTEA/INAOE, Santa Maria Tomantzintla, Mexico

    Sergio Camacho-Lara

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Singhroy, V. (2016). Operational Applications of Radar Images. In: Pelton, J., Madry, S., Camacho-Lara, S. (eds) Handbook of Satellite Applications. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6423-5_43-3

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