Synthetic aperture radar for search and rescue: polarimetry and interferometry

Author

Lukowski, Tom I. ; Yue, Bing ; Mattar, Karim

Author_Institution

Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, Ont., Canada

Volume

4

fYear

2004

fDate

20-24 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

2479

Abstract

The use of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) provides an opportunity to assist search and rescue in the location of downed airplanes in particular in the northern areas of Canada. This paper presents results of examining the detection of crashed aircraft targets using airborne SAR data. Considerations for decreasing the number of "false targets" using a combined polarimetric and interferometric analysis have been tested with results indicating a promising approach for target detection using these SAR techniques.

Keywords

aircraft; radar polarimetry; radiowave interferometry; remote sensing by radar; search radar; synthetic aperture radar; SAR techniques; SAR² Project; airborne SAR data; crashed aircraft target detection; downed airplanes; interferometric analysis; northern Canada; polarimetric analysis; radar interferometry; radar polarimetry; search and rescue; synthetic aperture radar; Aircraft; Airplanes; Computer crashes; Image analysis; Image sensors; Interferometry; Polarimetry; Research and development; Synthetic aperture radar; Vehicle crash testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004. IGARSS '04. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8742-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2004.1369796

Filename

1369796