New SAR system configuration for detection of buried objects

Author

Wiesbeck, W. ; Fischer, C.

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Hochstfrequenztech. und Elektronik, Karlsruhe Univ., Germany

Volume

5

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

2471

Abstract

The invention of the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) principle dates back to the early 1950s. The basic idea is to filter targets in a side looking radar according to their Doppler history in azimuth and by pulse or FM modulation compression in range. Since this time SAR systems have been, from a technical point of view, considerably refined to the state of the art where resolution and accuracy are close to the theoretical limits. This paper presents a new system idea for a single frequency SAR, where resolution is achieved by phase comparison. The system configuration becomes extremely simple and is suited for groundbased and airborne high resolution SAR

Keywords

buried object detection; geophysical techniques; radar detection; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; SAR; buried object; detection; ground penetrating radar; measurement technique; radar remote sensing; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; Azimuth; Buried object detection; Doppler radar; Filters; Frequency modulation; History; Pulse compression methods; Pulse modulation; Radar detection; Synthetic aperture radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1999. IGARSS '99 Proceedings. IEEE 1999 International

Conference_Location

Hamburg

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5207-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1999.771546

Filename

771546