Medium resolution efficient phase preserving focusing for interferometry

Author

Gatelli, F. ; Guamieri, A. Monti ; Prati, C. ; Rocca, F.

Author_Institution

Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Volume

1

fYear

1996

fDate

27-31 May 1996

Firstpage

671

Abstract

A real time technique to get strip-map SAR interferograms and coherence maps with common Unix Workstations is presented. For the ERS mission, the “real time” throughput corresponds to approximately 1/8 of PRF: e.g. ~4 min for processing a 100×100 km image pair. The proposed algorithm achieves that goal on a medium cost 160 Mflops/s Unix Workstation. The output is a 5 looks averaged interferogram, with a geometric resolution of 50×50 m

Keywords

geophysical signal processing; geophysical techniques; image processing; image resolution; radar imaging; radar signal processing; synthetic aperture radar; SAR imagery; SAR interferometry; Unix Workstations; algorithm; coherence map; geophysical measurement technique; geophysics computing; image pair; image processing; image resolution; land surface; medium resolution efficient phase preserving focusing; radar imaging; radar remote sensing; radar signal processing; real time method; strip-map SAR interferogram; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; Azimuth; Computational efficiency; Costs; Decorrelation; Focusing; Frequency estimation; Interferometry; Phase estimation; Throughput; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1996. IGARSS '96. 'Remote Sensing for a Sustainable Future.', International

Conference_Location

Lincoln, NE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3068-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1996.516438

Filename

516438