Tutorials

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Introduction to Synthetic Aperture Radar

Armin Doerry · Sandia National Laboratories

Tutorial scope

Synthetic Aperture Radar maps the radar reflectivity of the ground for Earth resource monitoring and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance. This introductory tutorial covers the physical concepts, processing, performance, features, and exploitation modes that make SAR useful.

The presentation emphasizes the meaning of the mathematics through example SAR images and data products. Its four modules build on lectures developed for government, military, industry, and academic audiences.

Presenter biography

Armin Doerry is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in Sandia’s ISR Mission Engineering Department. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico and has worked on SAR and other radar systems since 1987. He has taught radar signal processing at the University of New Mexico and delivered SAR seminars to government, military, industry, and academic groups.