Processing of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Images

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.

Synthetic aperture radar provides broad-area imaging at highresolutions, which is used in applications such as environmentalmonitoring, earth-resource mapping, and military systems.This book presents the tools required for the digital processing ofsynthetic aperture radar images. They are of three types: (a) theelements of physics, (b) mathematical models and (c) imageprocessing methods adapted to particular applications.

Chapter 1. The physical basis of synthetic aperture radar imagery(Jean-Marie Nicolas and Sylvie Le Hégarat-Mascle).Chapter 2. The principles of synthetic aperture radar (Jean-MarieNicolas and Frédéric Adragna).Chapter 3. Existing satellite SAR systems (Jean-Marie Nicolas andFrédéric Adragna).Chapter 4. Synthetic aperture radar images (FrédéricAdragna, Sylvie Le Hégarat-Mascle and Jean-MarieNicolas).Chapter 5. Speckle models (Armand Lopès, René Garello andSylvie Le Hégarat-Mascle).Chapter 6. Estimation of reflectivity and filtering of SAR images(Armand Lopès, Florence Tupin and Sylvie LeHégarat-Mascle).Chapter 7. Classification of SAR images (Danielle Ducrot, FlorenceTupin and Sylvie Le Hégarat-Mascle).Chapter 8. Detection of points, contours and lines (Florence Tupinand Armand Lopès).Chapter 9. Geometry and relief (Frédéric Adragna).Chapter 10. Radar-grammetry (Henri Maître).Chapter 11. Radar-clinometry (Henri Maître).Chapter 12. Interferometry (Frédéric Adragna andJean-Marie Nicolas).Chapter 13. Phase unwrapping (Emmanuel Trouvé and HenriMaître).Chapter 14. Radar oceanography (Jean-Marc Le Caillec and RenéGarello).