Résumé :
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Scientists and engineers already engaged in the fields of radar surveillance, reconnaissance and scattering measurements, for instance, generally gain their specialist knowledge in both polarimetry and interferometry by working through scientific papers and specialised literature available on the subject. Usually, this is a time consuming exercise, as it is difficult to collate respective material tailored to newcomers. This Lecture Series is an attempt to redress this problem. The aim of this Lecture Series was to provide a substantial and balanced introduction to the basic theory, scattering concepts, systems and applications typical to polarimetric and interferometric radar reconnaissance and surveillance and to introduce the cutting-edge technologies, new ideas and methodologies. Topics covered were: basics, advanced concepts and applications of both radar polarimetry and SAR interferometry and the combination of both techniques as well with respect to cross track and along track, single and dual pass configurations; the interconnection between interferometry measurement errors and SAR system accuracy with respect to both platform flight path geometry and attitude, and principal radar system accuracies; polarimetric SAR processing and image analysis and the most important decomposition theorems; polarimetric interferometry and differential interferometry and the respective SAR image analysis, processing principles and calibration problems; and applications especially with respect to Digital Elevation Models and target classification; realized and future airborne and spaceborne systems as Examples (E-SAR, SIR-C/X-SAR, SRTM, ERS-1/2, RadarSAT, ENVISAT/ASAR, CARTWHEEL) together with a concluding outlook in the future development airborne and space borne polarimetric SAR with interferometry capability.
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