Infrastructure Monitoring with Spaceborne SAR Sensors [Paperback]

This book presents a novel non-intrusive infrastructure monitoring technique based on the detection and tracking of scattering centers in spaceborne SAR images. The methodology essentially consists of refocusing each available SAR image on an imposed 3D point cloud associated to the envisaged infrastructure element and identifying the reliable scatterers to be monitored by means of four dimensional (4D) tomography. The methodology described in this book provides a new perspective on infrastructure monitoring with spaceborne SAR images, is based on a standalone processing chain, and brings innovative technical aspects relative to conventional approaches. The book is intended primarily for professionals and researchers working in the area of critical infrastructure monitoring by radar remote sensing.


Introduction.- Signal model for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Images.- Scattering Centers Monitoring in SAR images.- Case study: Puylaurent Water-Dam and Chastel Landslide.- Conclusion.

Andrei Anghel received the Engineering degree (as valedictorian) and M.S. degree (with the highest grade) in Electronic Engineering and Telecommunications from the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania, in 2010 and 2012, respectively, and a joint Ph.D. degree from the University of Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France (in signal, image, speech, and telecoms) and the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania (in Electronic Engineering and Telecommunications, awarded summa cum laude) in 2015. From 2010 to 2011, he worked in the field of metamaterial composite right-/left-handed antennas. Between 2012 and 2015, he worked as a doctoral researcher at Grenoble Image sPeech Signal Automatics Laboratory (GIPSA-lab), Grenoble, France. In 2012, he joined the University Politehnica of Bucharest as a Teaching Assistant, where he is now an Assistant Professor in the Telecommunications Department, Faculty of Electronil£!