The UAVSAR instrument: Description and first results

Studies of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill With the UAVSAR Radar

“…UAVSAR is the latest generation of airborne SAR systems built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to support a wide range of radar remote sensing studies using polarimetry (polarimetric SAR (POLSAR)) or differential interferometry (DifINSAR) [Hensley et al, 2008[Hensley et al, , 2009. The UAVSAR radar is a miniaturized polarimetric synthetic aperture L band radar, operating with 80 MHz bandwidth from 1217.5 to 1297.5 GHz and deployed on the NASA Gulfstream-3 (G-3) aircraft.…”

Spatio-Temporal Mapping of Plate Boundary Faults in California Using Geodetic Imaging

“…Since 2009, NASA has operated UAVSAR, an airborne InSAR instrument that is mounted underneath a Gulfstream-III aircraft [35][36][37]. UAVSAR is an L-band instrument that images a 15 km × 90 km swath, and it has been operational since 2009 (Figure 2).…”

Log-cumulants of the finite mixture model and their application to statistical analysis of fully polarimetric UAVSAR data

“…But there exist many crucial issues concerning precision control and navigation of the platform as well as miniaturizing of the SAR sensors (Wang et al 2016). Although large challenges are posed in SAR data acquisition using UAVs, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has made great process recently by developing the UAVSAR instrument (Hensley et al 2008).…”

“…The primary objective of the side-looking UAVSAR instrument is to accurately map crustal deformations associated with natural hazards, such as volcanoes and earthquakes. The radar is fully polarimetric, with several important radar characteristics listed in Table 1 ( Hensley et al 2008).…”