P-3 ultrawideband SAR: system applications to foliage penetration

Norm VandenBerg; Dan R. Sheen; Stan Shackman; David L. Wiseman

doi:10.1117/12.242029

10 June 1996 P-3 ultrawideband SAR: system applications to foliage penetration

Norm VandenBerg, Dan R. Sheen, Stan Shackman, David L. Wiseman

Proceedings Volume 2757, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery III; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.242029
Event: Aerospace/Defense Sensing and Controls, 1996, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

The P-3 ultra-wide band (UWB) UHF SAR system penetrates foliage and has interesting applications including detecting foliage-obscured man-made objects and providing information about the terrain underlying the foliage. The UWB SAR system has collected a variety of forest data and some foliage penetration examples will be presented. An interesting application of the sensor is two-pass interferometry where the underlying terrain topology is mapped. This is in contrast to higher frequency interferometric SAR (IFSAR) which maps the tops of the tree canopy. A comparison of UHF and X-band IFSAR imagery will be presented.

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Norm VandenBerg, Dan R. Sheen, Stan Shackman, and David L. Wiseman "P-3 ultrawideband SAR: system applications to foliage penetration", Proc. SPIE 2757, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery III, (10 June 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.242029

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