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

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.

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.