On the Minimum Number of Tracks for SAR Tomography

Author

Nannini, Matteo ; Scheiber, Rolf ; Moreira, Alberto

Author_Institution

Microwaves & Radar Inst., German Aerosp. Centre - DLR, Wessling

Volume

2

fYear

2008

fDate

7-11 July 2008

Abstract

The main drawback of SAR Tomography (SARTom) is the considerable number of tracks required to achieve the 3-dimensional (3D) representation of a viewed scene. The key point concerns the trade-off between the vertical resolution and the control on ambiguities phenomena. This paper deals with the problem of the determination of the minimum number of required tracks when super-resolution subspace methods are applied. The results are validated on real data acquired in L-band by the E-SAR system of the German Aerospace Centre.

Keywords

astronomical image processing; image representation; synthetic aperture radar; 3D viewed scene representation; E-SAR system; German Aerospace Centre; L-band; SAR Tomography; SARTom; super-resolution subspace methods; synthetic aperture radar; Array signal processing; Direction of arrival estimation; Image reconstruction; L-band; Layout; Radar scattering; Radar tracking; Synthetic aperture radar; Target tracking; Tomography; SAR Tomography; super-resolution; system dimension;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2807-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2808-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779023

Filename

4779023