Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g. – Synthetic aperture radar
Patent
1997-07-09
2000-01-04
Lobo, Ian J.
Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g.,
Synthetic aperture radar
342191, G01S 1390
Patent
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06011505&
ABSTRACT:
An interferometric synthetic aperture radar (IFSAR) elevation measurement processor computes an elevation array by processing a first image array to generate an elevation corrected first image array, processing a second image array to generate an elevation corrected second image array, generating a phase interferogram from the elevation corrected first and second image arrays, and processing the phase interferogram to generate the computed elevation array. The layover correction is based on either (1) a predetermined elevation array, (2) an elevation array computed by radargrammetry, (3) an initial computed elevation array developed in an initial iteration by initial interferometry of uncorrected images followed by the layover correction in a subsequent iteration based on the initial computed elevation array, or (4) a combination of the above. The layover correction process removes range and Doppler distortion inherent in pixel data due to elevations variations in the imaged terrain.
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Mansfield Arthur W.
Poehler Paul L.
Lobo Ian J.
Science Applications International Corporation
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