Operation and characteristics of imaging radar systems
Abstract
After a brief discussion of ground-to-air radar, the operation of air-to-ground imaging radar is discussed examined in detail with emphasis on plan position indicators, and side looking airborne radar. Attention is given to terrain-signal interaction (surface roughness, angle of incidence, polarization, complex dielectric constant, and frequency), penetration, stereoradar, and imagery format. Radar imagery characteristics (radar foreshortening and layover) are considered along with imagery interpretation (tone, texture, shape, pattern, size, and shadow).
- Publication:
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Remote Sensing Electro Magnetic Spectrum
- Pub Date:
- July 1976
- Bibcode:
- 1976RSEMS...3...23M
- Keywords:
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- Aerial Photography;
- Plan Position Indicators;
- Radar Imagery;
- Side-Looking Radar;
- Synthetic Arrays;
- Terrain Analysis;
- Airborne Equipment;
- Permittivity;
- Photointerpretation;
- Polarization Characteristics;
- Radar Antennas;
- Stereophotography;
- Surface Roughness Effects;
- Communications and Radar