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. View course sampler
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.
How to process data from SAR systems for high resolution, wide area coverage, interferometric and/or polarimetric applications.
How to design and build high performance SAR processors.
Perform SAR data calibration.
Ground moving target indication (GMTI) in a SAR context.
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.
SAR Data Calibration. Internal (e.g., cal-tones) and external calibrations, Doppler centroid aliasing, geolocation, polarimetric calibration, ionospheric effects.
Example Systems and Applications. Spacebased: SIR-C, RADARSAT, ENVISAT, TerraSAR, Cosmo-Skymed, PalSAR. Airborne: AirSAR and other current systems. Mapping, change detection, polarimetry, interferometry.
Tuition:
Tuition for this two-day course is $1090 per person at one of our scheduled public courses. Onsite pricing is available. Please call us at 410-956-8805 or send an email to ATI@ATIcourses.com.
