YINSAR: a compact, low-cost interferometric synthetic aperture radar

Author

THOMPSON, Douglas G. ; Arnold, David V. ; Long, David G.

Author_Institution

Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

598

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 has developed its interferometric SAR, YINSAR. This compact, low-cost system is operated from a four passenger aircraft. This paper reports the current status of YINSAR. The system operation and instrument platform are described in detail. The motion measurements and their statistics are discussed

Keywords

airborne radar; geophysical equipment; geophysical techniques; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; BYU; Brigham Young University; InSAR; SAR; YINSAR; airborne radar; geophysical measurement technique; instrument; interferometric SAR; land surface; low-cost; radar remote sensing; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; Aircraft; Computer interfaces; Control systems; Costs; Instruments; Motion measurement; Portable computers; Radio frequency; Synthetic aperture radar; Synthetic aperture radar interferometry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1999. IGARSS '99 Proceedings. IEEE 1999 International

Conference_Location

Hamburg

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5207-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1999.773577

Filename

773577