Open AccessArcSAR for detecting target elevation
Author(s) -
Pieraccini M.,
Miccinesi L.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
electronics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1350-911X
pISSN - 0013-5194
DOI - 10.1049/el.2016.2367
Subject(s) - elevation (ballistics) , digital elevation model , synthetic aperture radar , computer science , azimuth , radar , remote sensing , radar imaging , interferometric synthetic aperture radar , antenna (radio) , geology , geodesy , computer vision , telecommunications , engineering , optics , physics , structural engineering
ArcSAR is a Synthetic Aperture Radar which recently has been receiving increasing interest in scientific literature. It operates exploiting the spatial diversity of the data acquired by an antenna fixed to a rotating arm. Its great advantage is its capability to synthesise images at 360° with constant resolution in azimuth. The ArcSAR, in addition to operate as interferometric differential radar, can detect the elevation of the targets, i.e. it is potentially able to generate digital elevation models of the surrounding field of view.