P-3 ultra-wideband SAR: description and examples

Autor: David L. Wiseman, S.J. Shackman, L.P. Elenbogen, R.F. Rawson, Dan R. Sheen, N.L. VandenBerg
Rok vydání: 1996
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Zdroj: IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine. 11:25-30
ISSN: 0885-8985
DOI: 10.1109/62.544023
Popis: Under the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)/ASTO sponsorship, through a contract from the Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC), the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM) has developed an ultra-wideband (UWB) very high frequency (VHF)/ultrahigh frequency (UHF) fully polarimetric airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) for studying the detection of foliage-obscured objects. The radar is installed in the NAWC P-3 testbed aircraft and takes advantage of existing ERIM-built multimode, fully-polarimetric X/L/C-band SAR hardware. This paper describes the radar and presents some examples of its capabilities including polarimetric imagery and two-pass interferometric surface height estimates.
Databáze: OpenAIRE