Title :
DOSAR : a multifrequency polarimetric and interferometric airborne SAR-system
Author :
Hoffmann, K. ; Fischer, P.
Author_Institution :
Syst. & Defence Electron., Dornier GmbH, Friedrichshafen, Germany
Abstract :
Presents the operational outlines of the multifrequency polarimetric airborne interferometric SAR system of the EADS/Dornier owned DOSAR. The simultaneous combination of full polarimetric with interferometric data makes it the only SAR system world-wide to collect cadastral information for mapping and land-use classification gathered within a single flight path. The DOSAR system is operational on a wide range of different aircraft. It is suitable for data collection for scientific, commercial and sovereignty as well as military applications. It has displayed its world-wide availability in a number of national flight campaigns in Germany as well as international applications in Austria, Switzerland, Indonesia and Thailand. Examples from these campaigns show the quality of high resolution SAR-data for mapping and classification.
Keywords :
airborne radar; radar polarimetry; radiowave interferometers; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; 3.04 GHz; 35.0 GHz; 5.30 GHz; 9.50 GHz; Austria; C-band; DOSAR; EADS/Dornier; Germany; Indonesia; Ka-band; S-band; Switzerland; Thailand; X-band; cadastral information; data collection; interferometric data; land-use classification; mapping; multifrequency polarimetric airborne interferometric SAR system; national flight campaigns; operational outlines; polarimetric data; Aerospace testing; Azimuth; Bandwidth; Frequency; Global Positioning System; Military aircraft; Polarization; Radar antennas; Reflector antennas; Slot antennas;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002. IGARSS '02. 2002 IEEE International
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7536-X
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1026228
