Remote sensing with imaging radar

✍ Scribed by John A. Richards (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 373
• Series: Signals and communication technology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book treats the technology of radar imaging for remote sensing applications in a manner suited to the mathematical background of most earth scientists. It assumes no prior knowledge of radar on the part of the reader; instead it commences with a development of the essential concepts of radar before progressing through to a detailed coverage of contemporary ideas such as polarimetry and interferometry.

Because the technology of radar imaging is potentially complex the first chapter provides a framework against which the rest of the book is set. Together, the first four chapters present the technical foundations for remote sensing with imaging radar. Scattering concepts are then covered so that the reader develops the knowledge necessary for interpreting radar data, itself the topic of a later chapter which draws together the current thinking in the analysis of radar imagery.

The treatment is based on the assumption that the radars of interest are, in general, multi-polarised. Polarisation synthesis and polarised interferometric SAR are among the topics covered, as are tomography and the various forms of interferometry. A full chapter is given to bistatic radar, which is now emerging as an imaging technology with enormous potential and flexibility in remote sensing. The book concludes with a summary of passive microwave imaging.

A set of appendices is included that provide supplementary material, among which is an overview of the rather complicated process of image formation with synthetic aperture radar, and summaries of some of the mathematical procedures important for a full appreciation of radar as a remote sensing technology.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-18
The Imaging Radar System....Pages 1-10
The Radiation Framework....Pages 11-52
The Technology of Radar Imaging....Pages 53-108
Correcting and Calibrating Radar Imagery....Pages 109-134
Scattering from Earth Surface Features....Pages 135-180
Interferometric and Tomographic SAR....Pages 181-231
Bistatic SAR....Pages 233-263
Radar Image Interpretation....Pages 265-308
Passive Microwave Imaging....Pages 309-320
Back Matter....Pages 1-36

✦ Subjects

Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering; Signal, Image and Speech Processing; Computer Applications in Earth Sciences; Ecotoxicology; Image Processing and Computer Vision; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography