The Danish real-time SAR processor: first results

A real-time processor (RTP) for the Danish airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has been designed and constructed at the Electromagnetics Institute. The implementation was completed in mid 1992, and since then the RTP has been operated successfully on several test and demonstration flights. The p...

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Main Authors: Dall, J., Jorgensen, J.H., Netterstrom, A., Vardi, N., Christensen, E.L., Madsen, S.N.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Azimuth
Councils
Electromagnetics
Focusing
Image resolution
Motion compensation
Real time systems
Spatial resolution
Synthetic aperture radar
Testing
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Summary:A real-time processor (RTP) for the Danish airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has been designed and constructed at the Electromagnetics Institute. The implementation was completed in mid 1992, and since then the RTP has been operated successfully on several test and demonstration flights. The processor is capable of focusing the entire swath of the raw SAR data into full resolution, and depending on the choice made by the on-board operator, either a high resolution one-look zoom image or a spatially multilooked overview image is displayed. After a brief design review, the paper addresses various implementation and performance issues.< >
DOI:10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322725