INTA´s developments for UAS and small platforms: QUASAR

Author

Muñoz, Juan Manuel Cuerda ; Bonilla, María José González ; Miguel, Beatriz Gómez ; Ramón, Juan ; Sudupe, Larrañaga ; Rodrìguez, Marcos Garcìa

Author_Institution

INTA, Spanish Nat. Inst. for Aerosp. Technol., Torrejon de Ardoz, Spain

Volume

4

fYear

2009

fDate

12-17 July 2009

Abstract

This paper will outline the objectives and mission, general features and roadmap and will give a brief description of the two main prototypes of QUASAR (Quicklook Unmanned Aerial SAR), the main project in Synthetic Aperture RADAR for small platforms carried out by the Spanish National Institute for Aerospace Technology. QUASAR is planned be released as a functional demonstrator in 2011 and as complete, operative and deliverable high resolution Ku-band SAR with ground segment station for mission planning, image formation and data exploitation system in 2013.

Keywords

airborne radar; remote sensing by radar; remotely operated vehicles; synthetic aperture radar; INTA; QUASAR; Quicklook Unmanned Aerial SAR; Spanish National Institute for Aerospace Technology; data exploitation system; ground segment station; high resolution Ku-band SAR; image formation; mission planning; small platforms; synthetic aperture radar; Airborne radar; Ground support; Image resolution; Image segmentation; Prototypes; Radar applications; Radar imaging; Radar signal processing; Surveillance; Synthetic aperture radar; Airborne radar; Synthetic aperture radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium,2009 IEEE International,IGARSS 2009

Conference_Location

Cape Town

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3394-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3395-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5417548

Filename

5417548