P-3 ultra-wideband SAR: description and examples

Author

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

Author_Institution

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

Volume

11

Issue

11

fYear

1996

fDate

11/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

25

Lastpage

30

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 ultrawideband (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

airborne radar; polarimetry; radar polarimetry; radiowave interferometry; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; ARPA/ASTO sponsorship; Advanced Research Projects Agency; ERIM; Environmental Research Institute; Michigan; NAWC P-3 testbed aircraft; Naval Air Warfare Center; P-3 ultra-wideband SAR; SAR; UHF; VHF; X/L/C band; detection of foliage-obscured objects; multimode polarimetric SAR; polarimetric airborne synthetic aperture radar; ultrahigh frequency; very high frequency; Airborne radar; Contracts; Frequency; Object detection; Radar detection; Radar imaging; Radar polarimetry; Synthetic aperture radar; Testing; Ultra wideband technology;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8985

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/62.544023

Filename

544023