Death Valley as Seen by Imaging Radar

Thanks to Dan Blumberg (ASU) for providing these images ...

The following images are from work in progress by Dan Blumberg (ASU), Ronald Greely (ASU), Steve Wall (JPL), Nick Lancaster (DRI), Haim Tsoar (Israel), Jim Iversen (Iowa State U.), Bruce White (UC Davis), Keld Rasmussen (Denmark), and Tony Dobrovolskis (NASA/Ames).

• SIR-C data - Color Composite of Death Valley . (1.1 Mbytes)
• AIRSAR data - Color Composite of the Stovepipe Wells dune field in Death Valley, pointing to various dune types, corner reflectors, etc. (687 Kbytes)
• AIRSAR data - Color composite of the Furnace Creek Wash area and Golden Canyon pointing to various dune types, etc. (667 Kbytes)
• Boundary layer micrometeorology tower which was deployed during the mission at Gower Gulch (in the Golden Canyon image) (258 Kbytes)

Our study focuses on the use of SAR to study windblown processes including sand and dust storms. We are using SAR to estimate the aerodynamic properties of a surface -- this is an important parameter in climate modeling, the threshold windspeed for sand and dust transport and other boundary layer models. For further information contact Dan Blumberg at : dan.blumberg@asu.edu