ASF SAR processing system overview

Author

Leung, K. ; Cuddy, D. ; Chen, M.

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1994

fDate

8-12 Aug. 1994

Firstpage

1190

Abstract

The Alaska SAR Facility (ASF) situated at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) is currently undergoing an extensive development effort to increase its capabilities in handling new sensors and in the areas of throughput, data handling, archive, and distribution. The SAR Processing System (SPS) in particular will be much enhanced and will expand from the current single processor configuration to one that consists of three SAR processors in total. With the new SPS, the current processing capabilities for ERS-1 and JERS-1 will remain. Added will be processing capabilities for ERS-2 (late 1994) and RADARSAT (early 1995). Moreover, improvements in the areas of throughput, reliability, maintainability and operability will be achieved.

Keywords

geophysical signal processing; geophysical techniques; radar applications; radar imaging; remote sensing; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; ASF; Alaska SAR Facility; ERS-1; ERS-2; JERS-1; RADARSAT; SAR Processing System; SAR imaging; SPS; ScanSAR; UAF; University of Alaska Fairbanks; geophysical measurement technique; land surface terrain mapping; remote sensing; signal processing; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; three SAR processor; Application specific processors; Data handling; Data processing; Drives; Laboratories; Maintenance; Propulsion; Satellites; Sensor systems; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1994. IGARSS '94. Surface and Atmospheric Remote Sensing: Technologies, Data Analysis and Interpretation., International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1497-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1994.399382

Filename

399382