Title
SAR tomography of natural environments: Signal processing, applications, and future challenges
Abstract
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Tomography (TomoSAR) provides access to the three-dimensional (3D) structure of illuminated media by jointly focusing multiple SAR acquisitions. TomoSAR imaging can be understood in simple terms by considering that multiple SAR flight lines, or orbits, allow forming a bi-dimensional synthetic aperture, resulting in the possibility to resolve the targets not only in the range-azimuth plane, but also in elevation. This simple principle brings along unprecedented possibilities, providing a way to investigate the illuminated media based on a direct observation of their vertical structure. The aim of this paper is to provide the readers with a brief tutorial on the use of TomoSAR imaging in the remote sensing of distributed media, by presenting basic imaging principles, applications, signal processing methods, and identifying challenges for future tomographic SAR systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7728991
2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
SAR Tomography,distributed media
Signal processing,Computer vision,Computer science,Synthetic aperture radar,Remote sensing,Tomography,Artificial intelligence,Elevation,Image resolution
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2153-6996
978-1-5090-3333-1
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
14
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stefano Tebaldini133844.90
F. Rocca229460.99
Andreas Reigber367070.53
Laurent Ferro-Famil428945.54