The design and development of airborne high-resolution topographic imaging radar in CRL

Author

Kobayashi, Tatsuharu ; Uratsuka, Seiho ; Okamoto, Kenichi ; Masuko, Harunobu

Author_Institution

Commun. Res. Lab., Minist. of Posts & Telecommun., Koganei, Japan

Volume

1

fYear

34881

fDate

10-14 Jul1995

Firstpage

43

Abstract

The Communications Research Laboratory (CRL) has started to develop an X-band airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) with topographic mapping and polarimetric functions from 1993. The resolution of the system will be 1.5 m. The topographic mapping function yields the height at each point in the scene by using cross track interferometry with two antennas equipped on the airplane. Whereas the polarimeter function provides the radar cross sections with phase in all parallel and cross polarizations in order to distinguish surface conditions in detail. The authors discuss the signal to noise ratio, height error and phase error for their system

Keywords

airborne radar; geophysical equipment; geophysical techniques; radar applications; radar equipment; radar imaging; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; topography (Earth); CRL; Communications Research Laboratory; SAR; X-band; airborne high-resolution topographic imaging radar; cross track interferometry; design; development; geophysical technique measurement; land surface; polarization; radar polarimetry; radar remote sensing equipment; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; topographic mapping; Airborne radar; High-resolution imaging; Land surface; Ocean temperature; Radar imaging; Sea surface; Signal to noise ratio; Spaceborne radar; Surface topography; Synthetic aperture radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1995. IGARSS '95. 'Quantitative Remote Sensing for Science and Applications', International

Conference_Location

Firenze

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2567-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1995.519642

Filename

519642