A tutorial on synthetic aperture radar

A Mathematical Tutorial on Synthetic Aperture Radar

This paper presents the foundations of conventional strip-mode synthetic aperture radar (SAR) from a mathematical point of view. In particular, the paper shows how a simple antenna model can be used together with a linearized scattering approximation to predict the received signal. The conventional matched-filter processing is explained and analyzed to exhibit the resolution of the SAR system.

The Object Detection Efficiency in Synthetic Aperture Radar Systems

The main purpose of this paper is to develop the method of characteristic functions for calculating the detection characteristics in the case of the object surrounded by rough surfaces. This method is to be implemented in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems using optimal resolution algorithms. By applying the specified technique, the expressions have been obtained for the false alarm and cor...

Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar

1The school of ITEF, The University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia 2Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Via G. Caruso 16, 56122 Pisa, Italy 3 School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia 4Radar Modelling & Analysis Group, Electronic Warfare & Radar Division, Defence Science & Technology Organisation...

Synthetic aperture radar interferometry

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a coherent active microwave imaging method. In remote sensing it is used for mapping the scattering properties of the Earth’s surface in the respective wavelength domain. Many physical and geometric parameters of the imaged scene contribute to the grey value of a SAR image pixel. Scene inversion suffers from this high ambiguity and requires SAR data taken at di...

Synthetic Aperture Weather Radar