A Survey of novel airborne SAR signal processing techniques and applications for DLR´s F-SAR sensor

Author

Jager, M. ; Pinheiro, M. ; Ponce, O. ; Reigber, A. ; Scheiber, R.

Author_Institution

Microwaves & Radar Inst., German Aerosp. Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

fYear

2015

fDate

24-26 June 2015

Firstpage

236

Lastpage

241

Abstract

DLR´s Microwave and Radar Institute has been operating the F-SAR airborne SAR instrument since 2007. This contribution presents first the SAR imaging capabilities of the system followed by a discussion on recent developments in SAR signal processing using F-SAR data acquired in diverse special modes, each suitable for a specific application: large baseline, dual-frequency SAR interferometry for precise DEM generation, high resolution circular SAR imaging, advanced filtering and polarimetric change detection. The paper concludes with an outlook on future developments.

Keywords

airborne radar; image filtering; radar detection; radar imaging; radar interferometry; radar polarimetry; radar resolution; synthetic aperture radar; DLR F-SAR sensor; SAR imaging capability; advanced filtering; airborne SAR signal processing technique; dual-frequency SAR interferometry; high resolution circular SAR imaging; large baseline; polarimetric change detection; precise DEM generation; Covariance matrices; Image resolution; Imaging; Interferometry; Radar polarimetry; Speckle; Synthetic aperture radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Symposium (IRS), 2015 16th International

Conference_Location

Dresden

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IRS.2015.7226358

Filename

7226358