Understanding Synthetic Aperture Radar Images (Artech House Remote Sensing Library) - Hardcover

Chris Oliver; Shaun Quegan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 089006850X ISBN 13: 9780890068502

Publisher: Artech House on Demand, 1998

Synopsis

First examines fundamental aspects of how such images are formed, their basic characteristics as generated by the imaging process, their statistical properties, the recovery of nearly ideal images from imperfect systems, image analysis tools for scene understanding in single-channel data, and target detection in an overtly military context. Then casts that information into the forms required to handle multi-temporal, multi-frequency, polarimetric, and interferometric data and to explore the enhanced range of information available when such multi-channel data are available. Also cites real examples of applications and forecasts future developments in the technology. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

About this title

About the Author

Chris Oliver is the founder of InfoSAR Ltd. (www.infosar.co.uk), a firm that offers consultancy and training in SAR exploitation. Prior to founding InfoSAR, he led long-term research on the extraction and processing of information from SAR images for the British Defense Evaluation and Research Agency.

Review

“...This is a book that I strongly recommend—and one that should be widely read. The title says it all—with special attention to the last word—images. It is not about synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems, nor about the physics of microwave interaction (although the former is neatly summarized in early chapters). The authors have done a good job at providing a clear exposition of the SAR imaging process. Or, as summarized by Thuy Le Toan in the Foreword, ‘an integrated book that brings together both the basic properties of SAR images related to image formation and those related to scene properties.’ The extraction of the information contained within SAR imagery is the book’s prime focus, approaching the task from a generalized perspective that concentrates on the quantitative and statistical relationships between the image, the imaging process, and the target scene. Having said that, the authors do not consider abstract data analysis to be of much practical use, but rather they have tried to adopt such a rigorous approach throughout this book, but always with concern for the validation of a technique and its relevance to applications....”

Edition details

• Publisher: Artech House on Demand
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 089006850X
• ISBN 13: 9780890068502
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 512