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http://dx.doi.org/10.7780/kjrs.2011.27.2.163

Change of Refractive Index of Air in X-band due to Atmospheric Humidity, Temperature and Pressure measured by GB-SAR Interferometry  

Lee, Jae-Hee (Department of Geophysics, Kangwon National University)
Lee, Hoon-Yol (Department of Geophysics, Kangwon National University)
Cho, Seong-Jun (Mineral Resources Research Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Sung, Nak-Hoon (Mineral Resources Research Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Kim, Kwang-Eun (Mineral Resources Research Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
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Korean Journal of Remote Sensing / v.27, no.2, 2011 , pp. 163-170 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we analyzed the phase change of 5-triangular trihedral comer reflectors by using X-band Ground-Based Synthetic Aperture Radar (GB-SAR) system. Each reflector was set as a stationary target at a different distance from the system. We obtained total 123 full-polarization images during 40 hours continuously at 20 minute interval. Results of SAR interferometric analysis showed phase changes of maximum 2 radians and followed similar pattern with atmospheric data. Through a GB-SAR phase formula that includes refractive index in the air, we performed regression analysis for refractive index as a function of atmospheric humidity, temperature and pressure. As a result, refractive index of air in X-band showed relatively high coefficient of determination with humidity and temperature (0.72 and 0.76 on average, respectively) but not so with pressure (0.34). The refractive index of air in X -band changed by 3.14\;{\times}\;10^{-5}$ during the measuring time with a humidity range of 50% ~ 90% and a temperature range of $-1^{\circ}C$ ~ $9^{\circ}C$. We expect that a total expression of refractive index of air including humidity, temperature and pressure can be calculated when more extensive data would be collected at various atmospheric conditions.
Keywords
synthetic aperture radar; interferometry; humidity; temperature; pressure; refractive index;
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