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 before progressing
through to a detailed coverage of contemporary ideas such as
polarimetry and interferometry.
Because the technology of radar imaging is potentially complex
the first chapter provides a framework against which the rest of
the book is set. Together, the first four chapters present the
technical foundations for remote sensing with imaging radar.
Scattering concepts are then covered so that the reader develops
the knowledge necessary for interpreting radar data, itself the
topic of a later chapter which draws together the current thinking
in the analysis of radar imagery.
The treatment is based on the assumption that the radars of
interest are, in general, multi-polarised. Polarisation synthesis
and polarised interferometric SAR are among the topics covered, as
are tomography and the various forms of interferometry. A full
chapter is given to bistatic radar, which is now emerging as an
imaging technology with enormous potential and flexibility in
remote sensing. The book concludes with a summary of passive
microwave imaging.
A set of appendices is included that provide supplementary
material, among which is an overview of the rather complicated
process of image formation with synthetic aperture radar, and
summaries of some of the mathematical procedures important for a
full appreciation of radar as a remote sensing technology.
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