Application Capacity Evaluation of HJ-1-C towards Ice Disaster during On-orbit Test Period

Abstract

On November 19, 2012, HJ-1-C was launched successfully, which is the first civil Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite in China and is also the only S-band SAR on-orbit satellite in the world. During the on-orbit period, National Disaster Reduction Center of China (NDRCC) preliminarily evaluated the application capacity towards the ice disaster, and also evaluated the relative precision by using multispectral images of ZY-3 satellite. The result shows that, the S-band SAR satellite has super response towards ice. Entirely freeze-up area, non entirely freeze-up area and drift ice area can be effectively identified, and the S-band SAR satellite has better disaster reduction application capacity. The S-band SAR satellite data will fill up the band’s blank of SAR satellite in China and even the world, and its disaster reduction potentiality remains to be excavated further more.

Journal

Title: Journal of Radars

Publisher: Chinese Academy of Sciences

Publication date (Electronic): 01 June 2014

Volume: 3

Issue: 3

Pages: 368-374

Affiliations

[1 ] National Disaster Reduction Center of China

Article

Doaj ID: 9d5784ea14cc445b8761eea97c1a6577

DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1300.2014.14064

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Categories

Subject: Technology (General)

Subject: T1-995