SAR China Land Mapping Project: Development, Production and Potential Applications

Journal article

Large-area, seamless synthetic aperture radar (SAR) mosaics can reflect overall environmental conditions and highlight general trends in observed areas from a macroscopic standpoint, and effectively support research at the global scale, which is in high demand now across scientific fields. The SAR China Land Mapping Project (SCLM), supported by the Digital Earth Science Platform Project initiated and managed by the Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CEODE), is introduced in this paper. This project produced a large-area SAR mosaic dataset and generated the first complete seamless SAR map covering the entire land area of China using EnviSat-ASAR images. The value of the mosaic map is demonstrated by some potential applications in studies of urban distribution, rivers and lakes, geologic structures, geomorphology and paleoenvironmental change.

Authors: Zhang, L; Guo, H; Liu, G; Fu, W; Yan, S

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: IOP Publishing
• Journal: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
• Volume: 17
• Pages: 012229-012229
• Publication date: 2014-03-18
• DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/17/1/012229
• EISSN: 1755-1315
• ISSN: 1755-1307
• Language: English
• Keywords: China; Synthetic aperture radar; Geology; Environmental resource management; Earth observation; Engineering; Mosaic; Remote sensing; Cartography; Earth science; Environmental science; Geography; Scale (ratio); Archaeology