ATI's Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar course

Summary: This course is designed for those who have already taken a basic synthetic aperture radar (SAR) class and/or have working experience with SAR systems design and applications technologies. With this as a point of departure, the course will introduce advanced systems design and associated signal processing concepts and implementation details. The course will emphasize advanced SAR processing systems and operations. How equipment specifications and operating modes are selected. The course will provide detailed coverage of interferometic, spotlight and polarmetric SAR, covering the principles and signal processing algorithms. Instructor: Barton D. Huxtable, Ph.D., has over ten years experience in concept development and performance prediction for remote sensor systems including radars, passive millimeter wave imagers, sonars, and lidars. His career has emphasized signal processing and numerical algorithm design and implementation for application-specific data processing and analysis, concentrating on remote sensor processing systems. Dr. Huxtable specializes in integrated performance evaluations of SAR and processor system combinations, including SAR design simplifications made possible by state-of-the-art data processing systems. He directs User Systems’ core business of producing user-friendly, portable, high performance SAR processing systems. These employ state-of-the-art processing techniques described in this course. What You Will Learn: How to apply SAR to the design of high-resolution systems. How to design and build high performance signal processors. Design and implementation tradeoffs using RadarCalc. SAR activities in DoD, NASA and commercial applications. Current state-of-the-art. Course Outline: SAR Review Origins. Theory, Design, Engineering, Modes, Applications, System Processing Basics. Traditional strip map processing steps, theoretical justification, processing systems designs, typical processing systems. Advanced SAR Processing. Processing complexities arising from uncompensated motion and low frequency (e.g., foliage penetrating) SAR processing. Interferometric SAR. Description of the state-of-the-art IFSAR processing techniques: complex SAR image registration, interferogram and correlogram generation, phase unwrapping, and digital terrain elevation data (DTED) extraction. Spotlight Mode SAR. Theory and implementation of high resolution imaging. Differences from strip map SAR imaging. Polarimetric SAR. Description of the image information provided by polarimetry and how this can be exploited for terrain classification, soil moisture, ATR, etc. High Performance Computing Hardware. Parallel implementations, supercomputers, compact DSP systems, hybrid opto-electronic system. Image Phenomenology & Interpretation. Imagery of moving targets (e.g., train off the track), lay over, shadowing, slant-plane versus ground plane imagery, ocean imagery. Example Systems and Applications. SIR-C, ERS-1, AirSAR, Almaz, image artifacts and causes. ATR, coherent change detection, polarimetry, along-track interferometry. Tuition: Tuition for this two-day course is $990 per person at one of our scheduled public courses, $1290 with RadarCalc** software. Onsite pricing is available. Please call us at 410-956-8805 or send an email to ati@ATIcourses.com. (**Includes single user RadarCalc license for Windows PC, for the design of airborne & space-based SAR. Retail price $1000.) Register Now Without Obligation