abstract
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a radar imaging mode that maps radar reflectivity of the ground. This is an important earth resource monitoring and analysis tool in the civilian and government communities, and an important intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) tool for the military and intelligence communities. The tutorial proposed herein is intended to provide an introduction to the physical concepts, processing, performance, features, and exploitation modes that make SAR work, and make it useful. Although mathematics will be shown in some parts of the presentation, the lecture will focus on the qualitative significance of the mathematics rather than dry derivations. Liberal use of example SAR images and other data products will be used to illustrate the concepts discussed. The presentation will be given as fourdistinct modules, each based on (but enhanced from) presentations developed and given by the presenter in numerous non-public forums to government, military, industry, and academic groups.
Presented by armin doerry (SANDIA NATIONAL LABS)
biography
Dr. Armin Doerry is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in the Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Mission Engineering Department of Sandia National Laboratories. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico. He has worked in numerous aspects of Synthetic Aperture Radar and other radar systems’ analysis, design, and fabrication since 1987, and continues to do so today. He has taught Radar Signal Processing classes (and related topics) as an adjunct professor at theUniversity of New Mexico, and has taught numerous seminars on SAR and other radar topics togovernment, military, industry, and academic groups.