Frequency domain raw SAR data compression for multi-mode satellite SAR instruments
Conference: EUSAR 2006 - 6th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
05/16/2006 - 05/18/2006 at Dresden, Germany
Proceedings: EUSAR 2006
Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF
Personal VDE Members are entitled to a 10% discount on this title
Authors:
Algra, Theo (National Aerospace Laboratory NLR, The Netherlands)
Bierens, Laurens (EONIC B.V., The Netherlands)
Abstract:
This paper addresses a novel frequency-domain raw SAR data compression concept that outperforms conventional methods based on Block Adaptive Quantisation (BAQ). The results of extensive compression performance and image quality evaluations are presented. It is shown that for an advanced multi-mode satellite SAR instrument the average compression ratio can be doubled as compared to BAQ. Space borne implementation is feasible due to the advent of advanced space FPGA's and ASIC's including the powerFFT, a fast FFT-oriented DSP.