Synthetic Aperture Radar Processing and its application

Course Description: 

1. Introduction to Synthetic Aperture Radar Remote Sensing

We will introduce the main concepts of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR

imaging along with the properties and information content of SAR data. 

 What is Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging?

 Geometric and radiometric properties of SAR

 Specific topics will include:

 SAR Pre-processing

 Calibration

 Speckle Filter

 Geometric correction

 SAR Data processing

 SAR data Classification

 Supervised Classification

 Un-supervised Classification

 Data Fusion of SAR and Optical data

 Polarimetric Signature

2. Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar Remote Sensing

We will introduce the concepts and applications of Interferometric SAR

(InSAR) processing. InSAR uses the phase signal captured in SAR data to

track subtle surface movements such as those related to seismic events and

volcanic activity. Specifically, we will address the following items:

o Concepts of Interferometric SAR processing and its applications InSAR for

Topographic Mapping

o InSAR for Deformation Monitoring

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