The P-3 ultra-wideband SAR: description and examples

Author

Sheen, D.R. ; Shackman, S.J. ; VandenBerg, N.L. ; Wiseman, D.L. ; Elenbogen, L.P. ; Rawson, R.F.

Author_Institution

Environmental Res. Inst. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

13-16 May 1996

Firstpage

50

Lastpage

53

Abstract

Under the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)/ASTO sponsorship, through a contract from the Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC), the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM) has developed an ultra-wideband (UWB) very high frequency (VHF)/ultrahigh frequency (UHF) fully polarimetric airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) for studying the detection of foliage-obscured objects. The radar is installed in the NAWC P-3 testbed aircraft and takes advantage of existing ERIM-built multimode, fully-polarimetric X/L/C-band SAR hardware. This paper describes the radar and presents some examples of its capabilities including polarimetric imagery and two-pass interferometric surface height estimates

Keywords

aircraft instrumentation; military systems; radar imaging; radar polarimetry; radiowave interferometry; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; ARPA; Advanced Research Projects Agency; C-band SAR hardware; Environmental Research Institute of Michigan; L-band SAR hardware; NAWC; NAWC P-3 testbed aircraft; Naval Air Warfare Center; P-3 ultra-wideband SAR; VHF/UHF radar; X-band SAR hardware; foliage obscured objects detection; polarimetric airborne synthetic aperture radar; polarimetric imagery; two-pass interferometric surface height estimates; ultrawideband SAR radar; Airborne radar; Contracts; Frequency; Object detection; Radar detection; Radar imaging; Radar polarimetry; Synthetic aperture radar; Testing; Ultra wideband technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference, 1996., Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE National

Conference_Location

Ann Arbor, MI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3145-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NRC.1996.510655

Filename

510655