Autonomous navigation airborne forward-looking synthetic aperture radar (SAR) observes the anterior inferior wide area with a short cross-track dimensional linear array as azimuth aperture. This is an application scenario that is drastically different from that of side-looking space-borne or air-borne SAR systems, which acquires azimuth synthetic aperture with along-track dimension platform mov...

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is an important active microwave imaging sensor [...]

The synthetic aperture radar principle has been discovered in the early 50. Since then, a rapid development took place all over the world and a couple of airand space-borne systems are operational today. Progress made in technology and digital signal processing lead to very flexible systems useful for military and civilian applications. Radar has proved to be valuable before, because of its day...

This paper applies the principle of radar polarimetry to a synthetic aperture frequency-modulated continuous wave (FM-CW) radar and presents results based on two-dimensional (2-D) full polarimetric imaging. It is shown that the polarimetric target reflection coefficients obtained by the synthetic aperture FM-CW radar are elements of a Sinclair scattering matrix, although the coefficients are de...

A Synthetic Aperture Radar is an antenna which collects and stores all signals with respect to amplitude, phase, frequency, polarization and running time for gaining desired information with Special processing algorithms. This paper provides a review of the progress in regard to the InSAR remote sensing technique and its applications in earth and environmental sciences, especially in the past d...

Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Simulated in MATLAB Matthew Schlutz This thesis further develops a method from ongoing thesis projects with the goal of generating images using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) simulations coded in MATLAB. The project is supervised by Dr. John Saghri and sponsored by Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems. SAR is a type of imaging radar in which the relative movement...

In this paper, a new Spaceborne Sliding Spotlight Range Sweep Synthetic Aperture Radar (SSS-RSSAR) is proposed to generate a high-resolution image of a Region of Interest (ROI) tilted with respect to the satellite track. Comparing to the traditional Spaceborne Sliding Spotlight Synthetic Aperture Radar (SSS-SAR), the SSS-RSSAR is superior in contributing to less data amount, lighter computation...