Title :
YINSAR: a compact, low-cost interferometric synthetic aperture radar
Author :
Thompson, D.G. ; Arnold, Thompson Douglas G ; Long, David V. ; Miner, David G. ; Jensen, Gayle F. ; Karlinsey, Michael A. ; Robertson, Thomas W. ; Bates, J.S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT, USA
Abstract :
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has proven useful for many different applications. Many more applications would be possible with a low-cost instrument. To address this need, BYU (Brigham Young University) has developed YSAR and YINSAR. These compact, low-cost systems are operated from four or six passenger aircraft. The prototype system, YSAR, showed the feasibility of obtaining images with low-cost SAR. YINSAR is an interferometric SAR with many improvements over YSAR. This paper reports the current status of YINSAR
Keywords :
airborne radar; geophysical equipment; geophysical techniques; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; 9.9 GHz; Brigham Young University; InSAR; SAR; YINSAR; airborne radar; equipment; geophysical measurement technique; instrument; interferometric SAR; interferometric synthetic aperture radar; land surface; low-cost; radar remote sensing; terrain mapping; Aircraft; Costs; Earth; Instruments; Laboratories; Prototypes; Radio frequency; Remote sensing; Synthetic aperture radar; Synthetic aperture radar interferometry;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings, 1998. IGARSS '98. 1998 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4403-0
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.1998.703695
