Collection(s) : Engineering Sciences
Paru le 03/07/2008 | Broché XV-280 pages
Professionnels
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a field that has been transformed by the recent availability of data from a new generation of space and airborne systems, and the authors take full advantage of this data to offer a synthetic geometrical approach to the description of the SAR technique, one that addresses physicists, radar specialists, as well as experts in image processing.
The book begins with a "theoretical emergency kit" that provides the foundation necessary to understand the math and science behind the SAR technology. It then provides a comprehensive description of the technique itself, stressing the geometrical approach to radar processing, followed by a description of how these principles are applied by considering SAR design from a radiometric perspective. The authors then turn their attention to radar interferometry, explaining the practical aspects behind obtaining interferometric products from radar data, in the context of resolving ambiguity interpretation, the availability of space-borne systems, radar-data archives and software-processing resources. The book closes with a detailed description of radar polarimetry.
Richly illustrated with a careful mathematical development of the basic scientific concepts, the book is intended for both academic use (by professors and students), as well as by professionals working in industry or government laboratories.
Didier Massonnet of the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) studied at the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Techniques Avancées (Paris), after which he spent a year at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He has worked on the design of synthetic aperture radar missions, playing a role in the development of radar interferometric techniques. He has received several awards, including one from the French Academy of Science and the Appleton Prize. He is the author of several patents, notably the interferometric cartwheel. He is an IEEE fellow and an AGU member.
Jean-Claude Souyris received an Engineering degree in Electronics from ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France (1989) and the Ph.D. degree from the Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse (1992). He was a visiting scientist at MIT in 1994 before joining the CNES, Toulouse, in 1997, where he is currently head of the altimetry and radar department. He has authored or co-authored numerous articles dedicated to radar image processing, radar polarimetry and radar altimetry. He is an IEEE member, and Associate Editor for Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters.
