http://topex.ucsd.edu/gmtsar
amplitude and phase
coherence and pixel matching
resolution: optical vs. microwave
2-D Aperture
range resolution - look angle H - spacecraft height - pulse length C - speed of light (sound)
azimuth resolution focussed unfocussed L - length of radar antenna Ra L - length of radar antenna - nominal slant range H/cos wavelength of radar unfocussed focussed
How is the image focused in the computer?
SAR processor
SAR processor
Range Compression
phase history of point reflector parabolic approximation to range history Least-squares fit of range history for each point in DEM provides both the accurate position in range azimuth space and the Dopper centroid and rate parameters needed to focus the image. This analysis only needs to be applied to the master image.
SAR processor
amplitude image