Drone-borne ground-penetrating radar for snow cover mapping

A Vergnano, D Franco, A Godio - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is one of the most commonly used instruments to map the
Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) in mountainous regions. However, some areas may be …

Drone-mounted ultrawideband radar for retrieval of snowpack properties

ROR Jenssen, M Eckerstorfer… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Extracting snowpack parameters from snow cover on sea ice or land is a time-consuming
and potentially high-risk task. Moreover, deriving such parameters by manually digging a …

Intercomparison of snow depth retrievals over Arctic sea ice from radar data acquired by Operation IceBridge

R Kwok, NT Kurtz, L Brucker, A Ivanoff… - The …, 2017 - tc.copernicus.org
Since 2009, the ultra-wideband snow radar on Operation IceBridge (OIB; a NASA airborne
mission to survey the polar ice covers) has acquired data in annual campaigns conducted …

Snow depth retrieval with an autonomous UAV-mounted software-defined radar

S Prager, G Sexstone, D McGrath… - … on Geoscience and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present results from a field campaign to measure seasonal snow depth at Cameron
Pass, Colorado, using a synthetic ultrawideband software-defined radar (SDRadar) …

Three-dimensional terahertz continuous wave imaging radar for nondestructive testing

X Zhang, T Chang, Z Wang, HL Cui - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, our research group has been devoting substantial efforts to the research and
development of active all-solid-state electronic terahertz (THz) continuous wave imaging …

Gradient-based optimization of PCFM radar waveforms

CA Mohr, PM McCormick, CA Topliff… - … on Aerospace and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While a number of signal structures have been proposed for radar, frequency modulation
(FM) remains the most common in practice because it is well-suited to high-power …

Reconstruction of snow on Arctic sea ice

E Blanchard‐Wrigglesworth… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Snow on Arctic sea ice is a poorly observed variable that plays an important role in the Arctic
climate system and impacts the remote sensing systems that monitor Arctic sea ice. We …

Drone-mounted UWB snow radar: technical improvements and field results

ROR Jenssen, S Jacobsen - Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Drone borne radar systems have seen considerable advances over recent years, and the
application of drone-mounted continuous wave (CW) radars for remote sensing of snow …

Broadband millimeter-wave imaging radar-based 3-D holographic reconstruction for nondestructive testing

X Zhang, J Liang, N Wang, T Chang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A self-designed all-solid-state electronic 3-D millimeter-wave imaging radar is demonstrated
and applied in holographic imaging for nondestructive testing of polymer materials. Full …

An improved UWB microwave radar for very long-range measurements of snow cover

F Rodriguez-Morales, C Leuschen… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present an ultrawideband (UWB) frequency-modulated (FM) microwave radar instrument
capable of preserving cm-scale vertical resolution from a very long range (verified up to~ 6 …