Title :
Data processing frame for airborne SAR prototype development
Author :
Gómez, B. ; González, M.J. ; Cuerda, J.M. ; Cores, J.F. ; Casal, N. ; Gimeno, N. ; Cifuentes, P. ; Arenas, A. ; Lòpez, A.
Author_Institution :
Inst. Nac. de Tec. Aeroespacial (INTA), Torrejon de Ardoz, Spain
Abstract :
Since 1993 The National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA) has been working on the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) program based on airborne SAR prototypes with increasing complexity development. In this frame, flexible data processing tools are needed as ground support, to allow the complete prototypes operation. This paper outlines the data processing framework of Radar laboratory. High level SAR processing environment is described. Different tasks and developments built in SAR data processing are introduced in several tools (data take campaigns design, performance assessment estimation, system configuration, product generation and data analysis). This group of tools performs the data processing core for the INTA SAR prototypes. New processing tools to cover specific needs for the new SAR prototypes developments in this laboratory are also introduced.
Keywords :
airborne radar; ground support systems; prototypes; radar signal processing; synthetic aperture radar; INTA; National Institute of Aerospace Technology; airborne SAR prototype development; data processing frame; data processing tools; ground support; radar laboratory; synthetic aperture radar; Data analysis; Data processing; Ground support; Image analysis; Laboratories; Prototypes; Radar imaging; Radar tracking; Software prototyping; Synthetic aperture radar; Airborne radar Ground support; Synthetic aperture radar;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium,2009 IEEE International,IGARSS 2009
Conference_Location :
Cape Town
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3394-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3395-7
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5417456
