YINSAR: a compact, low-cost interferometric synthetic aperture radar

Author

Thompson, D.G. ; Arnold, Thompson Douglas G ; Long, David V. ; Miner, David G. ; Jensen, Gayle F. ; Karlinsey, Michael A. ; Robertson, Thomas W. ; Bates, J.S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT, USA

Volume

4

fYear

1998

fDate

6-10 Jul 1998

Firstpage

1920

Abstract

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has proven useful for many different applications. Many more applications would be possible with a low-cost instrument. To address this need, BYU (Brigham Young University) has developed YSAR and YINSAR. These compact, low-cost systems are operated from four or six passenger aircraft. The prototype system, YSAR, showed the feasibility of obtaining images with low-cost SAR. YINSAR is an interferometric SAR with many improvements over YSAR. This paper reports the current status of YINSAR

Keywords

airborne radar; geophysical equipment; geophysical techniques; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; 9.9 GHz; Brigham Young University; InSAR; SAR; YINSAR; airborne radar; equipment; geophysical measurement technique; instrument; interferometric SAR; interferometric synthetic aperture radar; land surface; low-cost; radar remote sensing; terrain mapping; Aircraft; Costs; Earth; Instruments; Laboratories; Prototypes; Radio frequency; Remote sensing; Synthetic aperture radar; Synthetic aperture radar interferometry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings, 1998. IGARSS '98. 1998 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4403-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1998.703695

Filename

703695