Super-resolution satellite SAR for urban features monitoring

Conference: EUSAR 2008 - 7th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
06/02/2008 - 06/05/2008 at Friedrichshafen, Germany

Proceedings: EUSAR 2008

Pages: 3Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Ramberg, Morten (University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway)
Weydahl, Dan J. (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), Land and Airsystems Division, PO Box 25, NO-2027 Kjeller, Norway)

Abstract:
We present results from applying the range super-resolution algorithm on a set of interferometric satellite SAR images. We have used several repeat-pass ERS SAR pairs that are acquired over man-made objects to verify the resolution enhancement as the spatial satellite baseline increases. We show that the measured enhanced resolution follows closely the theoretical curve for a well defined coherent target. In the future, it will be interesting to test the algorithm on high-resolution satellite SAR data using repeat-pass acquisitions from the TerraSAR-X, Cosmo/Skymed and Radarsat-2 missions.