Airborne Dual-Frequency Polarimetric and Interferometric SAR

Tatsuharu KOBAYASHI  Toshihiko UMEHARA  Makoto SATAKE  Akitsugu NADAI  Seiho URATSUKA  Takeshi MANABE  Harunobu MASUKO  Masanobu SHIMADA  Hiroshi SHINOHARA  Hideharu TOZUKA  Masanori MIYAWAKI  

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E83-B   No.9   pp.1945-1954
Publication Date: 2000/09/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Advances in Radar Systems)
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airborne SAR,  polarimetry,  interferometry,  multi-frequency SAR,  high-resolution,  

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Summary: 
An airborne X- and L-band synthetic aperture radar system was developed by the Communications Research Laboratory and the National Space Development Agency of Japan in their joint project from 1993 to 1996. It is installed in the airplane, Gulfstream II. In both the azimuth and range directions, the resolution is 1.5 m for the X-band and 3 m for the L-band. Both SARs can make fully polarimetric observations. The X-band SAR has a cross-track interferometric function. In this paper we describe the SAR system, its ground processing system, and its performance. We also discuss motion compensation and interferogram quality.