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Synthetic aperture radar for disaster monitoring

2011; SPIE; Volume: 8021; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1117/12.884561

1996-756X

Ralf Dunkel, R. Saddler, Armin Doerry,

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is well known to afford imaging in darkness and through clouds, smoke, and other obscurants. As such, it is particularly useful for mapping and monitoring a variety of natural and man-made disasters. A portfolio of SAR image examples has been collected using General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.'s (GA-ASI's) Lynx ® family of Ku-Band SAR systems, flown on both operational and test-bed aircraft. Images are provided that include scenes of flooding, ice jams in North Dakota, agricultural field fires in southern California, and ocean oil slicks from seeps off the coast of southern California.