Long-wavelength SAR backscattering from glacier ice is of high relevance for glaciological applications since it contains information about both surface and subsurface structure of the ice. For this reason, SAR sensors can be used to discriminate and delineate the different glacier facies and to extract information on the ice density, which today can only be estimated on point basis. In this pa...

On synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images acquired over the ocean often sea surface signatures of atmospheric gravity waves (AGWs) as well as of oceanic internal waves are visible. They often look quite similar and it is not always easy to decide whether the wave-like patterns result from AGWs or from oceanic internal waves. In this paper we present criteria how to discriminate between these two...

We develop a method for the formation of spotlight-mode synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images with enhanced features. The approach is based on a regularized reconstruction of the scattering field which combines a tomographic model of the SAR observation process with prior information regarding the nature of the features of interest. Compared to conventional SAR techniques, the method we propose...

Ionospheric propagation effects can have significant impact on the signal properties of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems and they increase with decreasing carrier frequency. Recently, theoretical analyzes of ionospheric distortions in low-frequency SAR signals have indicated a multitude effects that are likely to affect the quality of SAR, interferometric SAR (InSAR), and polarimetric SAR...

Systemic acquired resistance (SAR) is a plant immune response induced after a local infection by necrotizing pathogens. The Arabidopsis NPR1 gene is a positive regulator of SAR, essential for transducing the SAR signal salicylic acid (SA). Mutations in the NPR1 gene abolish the SA-induced expression of pathogenesis-related (PR) genes and resistance to pathogens. To identify additional regulator...

This paper presents a simple yet very effective timedomain sparse representation and the associated sparse recovery techniques that can robustly capture raw ultra-wideband (UWB) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) records. Unlike previous approaches in compressed sensing for SAR, we take advantage of the sparsity and the correlation directly in the raw received pulses before even attempting image fo...

The authors attempted to estimate rice-planted areas using multi-temporal RADARSAT fine-mode and ERS1/SAR data in an early period of rice-planting season. The eastern part of Hiroshima City, HigashiHiroshima City, was selected as the test field, and three multi-temporal RADARSAT fine-mode images and ERS-1/SAR images, taken before and after rice-planting were used as the test data. From the firs...

This paper focuses on Design and Implementation of 10 Bit, 2MS/s successive approximation Register (SAR) Analog to digital converter (ADC) using Split DAC architecture. This SAR ADC architecture is designed and simulated using GPDK 0.18um CMOS technology. It consists of different blocks like sample and hold, comparator, Successive Approximation Register (SAR) and Split Digital to analog convert...

SAR sensors are able to operate under nearly all weather conditions, at daylight or in the night. This is especially beneficial for event-driven applications, like time-critical change-detection for disaster management. Unfortunately, SAR systems suffer from occlusions and ambiguities, especially in urban areas. Additionally, due to layover and foreshortening effects, the geo-referencing of SAR...

This paper introduces a new and novel radar interferometry based on Doppler synthetic aperture radar (Doppler-SAR) paradigm. Conventional SAR interferometry relies on wideband transmitted waveforms to obtain high range resolution. Topography of a surface is directly related to the range difference between two antennas configured at different positions. Doppler-SAR is a novel imaging modality th...