Paper Info
Title
Very-High-Resolution Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging: Signal Processing and Applications
Abstract
During the last decade, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) became an indispensable source of information in Earth observation. This has been possible mainly due to the current trend toward higher spatial resolution and novel imaging modes. A major driver for this development has been and still is the airborne SAR technology, which is usually ahead of the capabilities of spaceborne sensors by several years. Today's airborne sensors are capable of delivering high-quality SAR data with decimeter resolution and allow the development of novel approaches in data analysis and information extraction from SAR. In this paper, a review about the abilities and needs of today's very high-resolution airborne SAR sensors is given, based on and summarizing the longtime experience of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) with airborne SAR technology and its applications. A description of the specific requirements of high-resolution airborne data processing is presented, followed by an extensive overview of emerging applications of high-resolution SAR. In many cases, information extraction from high-resolution airborne SAR imagery has achieved a mature level, turning SAR technology more and more into an operational tool. Such abilities, which are today mostly limited to airborne SAR, might become typical in the next generation of spaceborne SAR missions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/JPROC.2012.2220511
Proceedings of the IEEE
Keywords
Field
DocType
airborne radar,radar imaging,sensors,synthetic aperture radar,Earth observation,German Aerospace Center,airborne SAR technology,airborne sensors,data analysis,decimeter resolution,high quality SAR data,high resolution airborne SAR imagery,information extraction,signal processing,spaceborne SAR mission,spaceborne sensors,spatial resolution,very high resolution airborne synthetic aperture radar imaging,Applications,high resolution,signal processing,synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
Radar imaging,Synthetic aperture radar,Side looking airborne radar,Early-warning radar,Space-based radar,Remote sensing,Man-portable radar,Inverse synthetic aperture radar,Radar lock-on,Geography
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
101
3
0018-9219
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
31
1.57
60
Authors
14
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andreas Reigber167070.53
Rolf Scheiber257468.81
Marc Jäger31169.88
Pau Prats-Iraola433540.39
Irena Hajnsek5755108.31
Thomas Jagdhuber616324.63
Konstantinos P. Papathanassiou717722.32
Matteo Nannini814315.30
Esteban Aguilera9352.44
Stefan V. Baumgartner1012210.68
Ralf Horn1110211.13
Anton Nottensteiner12352.82
Alberto Moreira131360200.32
Prats-Iraola, P.14332.68