Remote Sensing with Imaging Radar

• Main Author: Richards, John A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
• Series: Signals and Communication Technology,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Earth sciences.; Image processing.; Microwaves.; Optical engineering.; Electrical engineering.; Ecotoxicology.; Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering.; Communications Engineering, Networks.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Earth Sciences, general.; Image Processing and Computer Vision.

This book treats the technology of radar imaging for remote sensing applications in a manner suited to the mathematical background of most earth scientists. It assumes no prior knowledge of radar on the part of the reader; instead it commences with a development of the essential concepts of radar be...

Table of Contents:

• The Imaging Radar System
• The Radiation Framework
• The Technology of Radar Imaging
• Correcting and Calibrating Radar Imagery
• Scattering from Earth Surface Features
• Interferometric and Tomographic SAR
• Bistatic SAR
• Radar Image Interpretation
• Passive Microwave Imaging.