Compact, low-cost synthetic aperture radar

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...

Compact X band Synthetic Aperture Radar on 100kg Small Satellite

We are developing a small synthetic aperture radar (SAR) that is compatible with 100kg class satellite. A constellation of such small SAR satellites is promising for shot revisit time of earth observations. The SAR antenna is a deployable honeycomb panel antenna with slot array, that can be stowed compactly. RF instruments are on a satellite structure and feed through waveguides. RF signal feed...

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