Analog Raw SAR Data Reduction Using Dynamic Range Limiting: Background and Experimental Results with the PHARUS System

Analog Raw SAR Data Reduction Using Dynamic Range Limiting: Background and Experimental Results with the PHARUS System

Bierens, L.H.J.
Otten, M.P.G.
TNO Fysisch en Elektronisch Laboratorium

Stein, T.I. (editor)

1998

Describes the theoretical background of dynamic range limiting, an analog raw SAR data reduction technique. A Dynamic Range Limiter (DRL) breadboard model is presented, which has been used to prove the concept of this technique. The first results of the DRL experiment with the PHARUS airborne SAR system have shown that the DRL performs its function as expected and improves image quality when a low number of bits is used for the raw data. An additional experiment is required to demonstrate the DRL on extreme backscatter changes, such as a transition from land to sea

Radar
Remote sensing
Airborne radar
Data reduction
Synthetic aperture radar
Image compression
Image quality
Radar imaging

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b638e151-5b19-4c81-911e-8b144c9b86e4

https://doi.org/10.1109/igarss.1998.699699

95087

IEEE, Piscataway, NJ

IGARSS '98 - 1998 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings - Sensing and Managing the Environment, 6-10 July 1998, Seattle, WA, USA. Volume II, 1144-1146

conference paper