Accession Number:

ADA272329

Title:

Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH LEXINGTON LINCOLN LAB

Personal Author(s):

Report Date:

1992-11-03

Pagination or Media Count:

15.0

Abstract:

MIT Lincoln Laboratory is investigating the detection and identification of stationary ground targets in high resolution, fully polarimetric, synthetic aperture radar SAR imagery. This article 1 provides a brief description of the Lincoln Laboratory SAR, 2 describes an optimum polarimetric processing technique used to construct minimum-speckle SAR intensity imagery, and 3 presents examples of polarimetrically processed imagery. 1993 John Wiley and Sons, Inc. Synthetic aperture radar, Speckle reduction, Radar imaging, Polarimetric whitening filter

Descriptors:

• *OPTICAL IMAGES
• *POLARIMETRY
• *SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR
• *RADAR IMAGES
• REPRINTS
• DETECTION
• TARGETS
• IDENTIFICATION
• TARGET DETECTION
• FILTERS
• HIGH RESOLUTION
• TARGET RECOGNITION
• RADAR
• RESOLUTION
• CLUTTER
• INTENSITY

Subject Categories:

• Optical Detection and Detectors
• Active and Passive Radar Detection and Equipment
• Optics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE