Interferometric synthetic aperture radar processing on a massively parallel supercomputer

Author

Yerkes, C. ; Webster, E. ; d´Arnaud, P.

Author_Institution

Div. of Res., Dev., Test & Evaluation, Naval Command, Control, and Ocean Surveill. Center, San Diego, CA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1994

fDate

31 Oct-2 Nov 1994

Firstpage

132

Abstract

Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (IFSAR) processing technology has made available the ability to generate high accuracy digital terrain elevation (DTE) data. As with most SAR applications, the computation involved is very intensive. Massively parallel processors (MPP) provide the high performance required to do scalable SAR processing at a relatively modest cost. The authors explore the performance of one implementation of an IFSAR DTE processor on a MPP

Keywords

cartography; geophysical signal processing; parallel processing; radar imaging; radiowave interferometry; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; topography (Earth); IFSAR; high accuracy digital terrain elevation data; interferometric synthetic aperture radar processing; massively parallel supercomputer; performance; scalable SAR processing; Coprocessors; Costs; Hardware; Image resolution; NASA; Production; Radar imaging; Supercomputers; Synthetic aperture radar; Synthetic aperture radar interferometry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signals, Systems and Computers, 1994. 1994 Conference Record of the Twenty-Eighth Asilomar Conference on

Conference_Location

Pacific Grove, CA

ISSN

1058-6393

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6405-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACSSC.1994.471431

Filename

471431