Sentinel-1 SAR Backscatter Analysis Ready Data Preparation in Google Earth Engine
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Sentinel-1 SAR Backscatter ARD Preparation Framework
2.1. Sentinel-1 Data Selection
2.2. Additional Border Noise Correction
2.3. Speckle Filtering
2.4. Radiometric Terrain Normalization
2.5. Output
3. Discussion
4. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Mullissa, A.; Vollrath, A.; Odongo-Braun, C.; Slagter, B.; Balling, J.; Gou, Y.; Gorelick, N.; Reiche, J. Sentinel-1 SAR Backscatter Analysis Ready Data Preparation in Google Earth Engine. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 1954. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13101954
Mullissa A, Vollrath A, Odongo-Braun C, Slagter B, Balling J, Gou Y, Gorelick N, Reiche J. Sentinel-1 SAR Backscatter Analysis Ready Data Preparation in Google Earth Engine. Remote Sensing. 2021; 13(10):1954. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13101954
Chicago/Turabian StyleMullissa, Adugna, Andreas Vollrath, Christelle Odongo-Braun, Bart Slagter, Johannes Balling, Yaqing Gou, Noel Gorelick, and Johannes Reiche. 2021. "Sentinel-1 SAR Backscatter Analysis Ready Data Preparation in Google Earth Engine" Remote Sensing 13, no. 10: 1954. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13101954