Introduction to Radar data processing

Introduction to Radar data processing

• PALSAR: Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • about system (HTML)
  • ERSDAC PALSAR Pamphlet, PDF 8 pages
• SAR backscatter analysis: enables to estimate volume of water contained in soil, volume of biomass in forests, conditions of waves in the ocean etc.
  • Requirements: ...
• SAR Interferometry Processing: enables to produce elevation data and to measure topographical change (two SAR images are used - called Master Image and Slave image, respectively)
  • Requirements: complex SAR data - Single Look Complex as parallax not removed
• Polarimetric SAR Processing: forest fire monitoring, classification of vegetation (height), water content in vegetation, monitoring of snow cover, condition of ice, flood monitoring and soil moisture.
  • Requirements: ...

Sample data

• ERSDAC data download
• RAT data download
• ESA dataset package (Italy Earthquake, April 2009)

See also

• Radar satellite related articles in Wikipedia