The Legacy of Scatterometers: Review of applications and perspective

S Singh, RK Tiwari, V Sood, R Kaur… - IEEE Geoscience and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A scatterometer, as an active microwave radar sensor, measures the return of radar waves
in the form of a backscatter coefficient after reflection or scattering from Earth's surface. The …

Potential applications of SCATSAT-1 satellite sensor: a systematic review

S Singh, RK Tiwari, HS Gusain, V Sood - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Ku-band (13.5 GHz) based scatterometer is the main sensor onboard Scatterometer
Satellite (SCATSAT-1) launched on 26th September 2016 by Indian Space Research …

Classification of Arctic sea ice type in CFOSAT scatterometer measurements using a random forest classifier

X Zhai, R Xu, Z Wang, Z Zheng, Y Shou, S Tian, L Tian… - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Ku-band scatterometer called CSCAT onboard the Chinese–French Oceanography
Satellite (CFOSAT) is the first spaceborne rotating fan-beam scatterometer (RFSCAT). A new …

Polar applications of spaceborne scatterometers

DG Long - IEEE journal of selected topics in applied earth …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wind scatterometers were originally developed for observation of near-surface winds over
the ocean. They retrieve wind indirectly by measuring the normalized radar cross section …

Intercalibration of backscatter measurements among Ku-band scatterometers onboard the Chinese HY-2 satellite constellation

Z Wang, J Zou, Y Zhang, A Stoffelen, W Lin, Y He… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Chinese HY-2D satellite was launched on 19 May 2021, carrying a Ku-band
scatterometer. Together with the operating scatterometers onboard the HY-2B and HY-2C …

Sea ice monitoring with CFOSAT scatterometer measurements using random forest classifier

X Zhai, Z Wang, Z Zheng, R Xu, F Dou, N Xu, X Zhang - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Ku-band scatterometer called CSCAT onboard the Chinese–French Oceanography
Satellite (CFOSAT) is the first spaceborne rotating fan-beam scatterometer (RFSCAT). This …

Assessment of cryospheric parameters over the Himalaya and Antarctic regions using SCATSAT-1 enhanced resolution data

SR Oza, RV Bothale, DR Rajak, P Jayaprasad, S Maity… - Current Science, 2019 - JSTOR
Antarctica is the focus of scientific studies considering the largest reservoir of terrestrial
water in the form of ice and doubling of ice area during winter due to sea-ice growth. The …

Scatterometry for land hydrology science and its applications

PK Gupta, R Pradhan, RP Singh, A Misra - Current Science, 2019 - JSTOR
This study reports the potential of SCATSAT-1 scatterometer data for catchment-scale
hydrological applications related with river water level estimation and flood detection. New …

SVM-Based Sea Ice Extent Retrieval Using Multisource Scatterometer Measurements

C Xu, Z Wang, X Zhai, W Lin, Y He - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study aims to explore the joint usage of multisource scatterometer measurements in
polar sea water and ice discrimination. All radar backscatter measurements from current …

Dynamic Thresholding Fully Automated Sea Ice Extraction and Classification Methods Based on Multi-Source Remote-Sensing Data in the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea …

JM Xu, MM Ding, T Yu, SH Shi, SW Xu, YF Guan… - Advances in Space …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper presents the extraction and classification of sea ice in the Yellow and Bohai seas
using multi-source remote sensing products, including Landsat 8, HY-1C, and MODIS. We …