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Land Applications
Overview of the primary land application areas of the ASAR instrument modes
Note: Markings in parentheses indicate predominantly research applications.
| Land Applications | Image HH or VV |
Alternating Polarization HH/VV or VV/VH or HH/HV | Wide Swath HH or VV |
Global Monitoring HH or VV |
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| Vegetation / Agriculture | x | x | x | (x) |
| Forestry | x | x | x | |
| Land cover classification | x | x | (x) | |
| Cartography | x | (x) |
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| Topography / Geomorphology | x | (x) |
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| Hydrology / Soil moisture | x | x | x | (x) |
| Snow cover | x | x | x | |
| Ice | x | (x) | (x) | |
| Glacier | x | (x) | (x) | |
| Tectonics | x | |||
| Land transformation process |
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x | x | |
| Climate studies |
Keywords: ESA European Space Agency - Agence spatiale europeenne, observation de la terre, earth observation, satellite remote sensing, teledetection, geophysique, altimetrie, radar, chimique atmospherique, geophysics, altimetry, radar, atmospheric chemistry