Initial Evaluation of SAR Capabilities in UAV Multicopter Platforms

Airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors have been commonly used during the last decades to monitor different phenomena in medium-scale areas of observation, such as object detection and characterization or topographic mapping. The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a cost-effective so...

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Published in:IEEE journal of selected topics in applied earth observations and remote sensing 2018-01, Vol.11 (1), p.127-140
Main Authors: Lort, Marc, Aguasca, Albert, Lopez-Martinez, Carlos, Marin, Tomas Martinez
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Airborne radar
Airborne remote sensing
Airborne sensing
Airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
Apertures
Detection
Enginyeria de la telecomunicació
Evaluation
Fuel consumption
Object recognition
Power consumption
Product development
Radar
Radar polarimetry
Radiocomunicació i exploració electromagnètica
Remote sensing
Remote sensors
SAR (radar)
Sensor phenomena and characterization
Synthetic aperture radar
System effectiveness
Teledetecció
Topographic mapping
Trajectory
UAV SAR
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) multicopter
Unmanned aerial vehicles
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC
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Summary:Airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors have been commonly used during the last decades to monitor different phenomena in medium-scale areas of observation, such as object detection and characterization or topographic mapping. The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a cost-effective solution that offers higher operational flexibility than airborne systems to monitor these types of scenarios. The Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya has developed the first fully polarimetric SAR system at X-band integrated into a small UAV multicopter platform (UAV MP). The sensor, called AiR-based remote sensing, has been integrated into the platform overcoming restrictions of weight, space, robustness, and power consumption. To demonstrate the validity of the developed system, some measurement campaigns have been conducted in the outskirts of Barcelona, Spain.
ISSN:1939-1404
2151-1535
DOI:10.1109/JSTARS.2017.2752418