Processing of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Images [Hardcover]

Synthetic aperture radar provides broad-area imaging at high resolutions, which is used in applications such as environmental monitoring, earth-resource mapping, and military systems.
This book presents the tools required for the digital processing of synthetic aperture radar images. They are of three types: (a) the elements of physics, (b) mathematical models and (c) image processing methods adapted to particular applications.Chapter 1. The physical basis of synthetic aperture radar imagery (Jean-Marie Nicolas and Sylvie Le H?garat-Mascle).

Chapter 2. The principles of synthetic aperture radar (Jean-Marie Nicolas and Fr?d?ric Adragna).

Chapter 3. Existing satellite SAR systems (Jean-Marie Nicolas and Fr?d?ric Adragna).

Chapter 4. Synthetic aperture radar images (Fr?d?ric Adragna, Sylvie Le H?garat-Mascle and Jean-Marie Nicolas).

Chapter 5. Speckle models (Armand Lop?s, Ren? Garello and Sylvie Le H?garat-Mascle).

Chapter 6. Estimation of reflectivity and filtering of SAR images (Armand Lop?s, Florence Tupin and Sylvie Le H?garat-Mascle).

Chapter 7. Classification of SAR images (Danielle Ducrot, Florence Tupin and Sylvie Le H?garat-Mascle).

Chapter 8. Detection of points, contours and lines (Florence Tupin and Armand Lop?s).

Chapter 9. Geometry and relief (Fr?d?ric Adragna).

Chapter 10. Radar-grammetry (Henri Ma?tre).

Chapter 11. Radar-clinometry (Henri Ma?tre).

Chapter 12. Interferometry (Fr?d?ric Adragna and Jean-Marie Nicolas).

Chapter 13. Phase unwrapping (Emmanuel Trouv? and Henri Ma?tre).

Chapter 14. Radar oceanography (Jean-Marc Le Caillec and Ren? Garello).Henri Ma?tre is a Professor at the Ecole Nationale SuplC"