Title :
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
fDate :
31 Oct-2 Nov 1994
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;
Conference_Titel :
Signals, Systems and Computers, 1994. 1994 Conference Record of the Twenty-Eighth Asilomar Conference on
Conference_Location :
Pacific Grove, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-6405-3
DOI :
10.1109/ACSSC.1994.471431
