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Principles and Applications
ATI's Fundamentals of Synthetic Aperture Radar course
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Summary:
This course provides a survey of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) applications and how
they influence and are constrained by instrument, platform (airborne and satellite) and
image signal processing and extraction technologies/design. The principles of SAR are
presented and system design tradeoffs are illustrated for various mission requirements.
Examples and case studies are used. Contemporary technology capabilities are discussed
for NASA, DOD and commercial applications.
Instructors:
Samuel Walt McCandless, Jr. has 40 years experience in space and airborne remote sensing systems, design and related applications signal processing. He was the Program Manager of NASA's SEASAT, which placed the first Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) in space. Following the launch of SEASAT in 1978, he founded User Systems, Inc., which has provided continuous support to government and industry clients in the area of SAR design and applications. His experience spans the end-to-end areas of expertise from sensor and sensor/platform interface design to applications technologies including image signal processing and post image information/target detection, classification and associated analyses. He is involved with several efforts to commercialize space-based and airborne SAR data collection on product market developments.
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:
- Basic concepts and principles of SAR.
- What are the key system parameters.
- Performance calculations using RadarCalc.
- Design and implementation tradeoffs.
- Current system performance. Emerging systems.
Course Outline:
- Applications Overview. — A survey of important
applications and how they influence the SAR system from
sensor through processor. A wide number of SAR designs
and modes will be presented from the pioneering classic,
single channel, strip mapping systems to more advanced
all-polarization, spotlight, and interferometric designs.
- Applications and System Design Tradeoffs and
Constraints. — System design formulation will begin with a
class interactive design workshop using the RadarCalc
model designed for the purpose of demonstrating the
constraints imposed by range/Doppler ambiguities,
minimum antenna area, limitations and related radar
physics and engineering constraints. Contemporary
pacing technologies in the area of antenna design, on-board
data collection and processing and ground system
processing and analysis will also be presented along with a
projection of SAR technology advancements, in progress,
and how they will influence future applications.
- Civil Applications. — A review of the current NASA and
foreign scientific applications of SAR.
- Commercial Applications. — The emerging interest in
commercial applications is international and is fueled by
programs such as Canada’s RadarSat, the European ERS
series, the Russian ALMAZ systems and the current
NASA/industry LightSAR initiative. The applications (soil
moisture, surface mapping, change detection, resource
exploration and development, etc.) driving this interest will
be presented and analyzed in terms of the sensor and
platform space/airborne and associated ground systems
design and projected cost.
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.)
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