Convex Model-Based Synthetic Aperture Radar Processing

During October 1984, measurements of directional ocean wave spectra in high sea states were made off the coast of Chile, near Tierra del Fuego, by a synthetic aperture radar aboard the space shuttle Challenger. Simultaneously, independent measurements of ocean wave spectra were made by a complement of airborne instruments. The results indicate that a low-altitude orbiting synthetic aperture rad...

The least-mean-square (LMS) adaptive filter is applied to suppress narrow-band radiofrequency interference (R.FI) in wideband synthetic aperture radar (SAR.) signals. Simulation is used to show the working principles of the adaptive filter and to obtain the optimum filter's parameters. The algorithm is tested with P-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR.) data collected by the NASA/JPL airborne SA...

The dynamics of surface and sub-surface water events can lead to slope instability resulting in anomalies such as slough slides on earthen levees. Early detection of these anomalies by a remote sensing approach could save time versus direct assessment. We have implemented a supervised Mahalanobis distance classification algorithm for the detection of slough slides on levees using complex polari...

The dihedral corner reflectors are the basic geometric structure of many targets and are the main contributions of radar cross section (RCS) in the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. In stealth technologies, the elaborate design of the dihedral corners with different opening angles is a useful approach to reduce the high RCS generated by multiple reflections. As bistatic synthetic aperture ...

In the last two decades, scientists have developed a powerful technique to measure the millimeterscale of the Earth ̳s surface deformation by comparing complex synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data that were acquired a few days or a few years apart. This technique is known as interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR). The paper is focused on simulation of volume deformation of coastal éros...

Radar Polarimetry and Polarimetric SAR Interferometry represent the current culmination in ‘Microwave Remote Sensing’ technology based on the Antennas, Propagation, Radar and Systems. The purpose and procedure of polarimetry and polarimetric interferometry are shown in Fig. 1. With polarimetric radar sensing, it is possible to carry out 1) detection of targets, 2) decomposition of scattering me...

The concept of radar satellite constellations has been proposed in the literature and is currently under research. These constellations possess the wide angular coverage necessary for performing spaceborne MTI and the spatial sampling necessary for wide-area SAR. However, the constellations form arrays that are sparsely populated, three-dimensional, and irregularly spaced. Therefore, current SA...

Bistatic geometries are enabled in scenarios where multiple separated transmitters and receivers are employed as well as when illuminators of opportunity are exploited. Bistatic Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (B-ISAR) becomes the radar imaging tool for obtaining non-cooperative target images in arbitrary bistatic configurations. Theoretical aspects and real data experiments have been conducte...