SAR processing using SHARC signal processing systems

Barton D. Huxtable; Christopher R. Jackson; Steve A. Skaron

doi:10.1117/12.323842

18 September 1998 SAR processing using SHARC signal processing systems

Barton D. Huxtable, Christopher R. Jackson, Steve A. Skaron

Proceedings Volume 3371, Automatic Target Recognition VIII; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.323842
Event: Aerospace/Defense Sensing and Controls, 1998, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is uniquely suited to help solve the Search and Rescue problem since it can be utilized either day or night and through both dense fog or thick cloud cover. Other papers in this session, and in this session in 1997, describe the various SAR image processing algorithms that are being developed and evaluated within the Search and Rescue Program. All of these approaches to using SAR data require substantial amounts of digital signal processing: for the SAR image formation, and possibly for the subsequent image processing. In recognition of the demanding processing that will be required for an operational Search and Rescue Data Processing System (SARDPS), NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and NASA/Stennis Space Center are conducting a technology demonstration utilizing SHARC multi-chip modules from Boeing to perform SAR image formation processing.

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Barton D. Huxtable, Christopher R. Jackson, and Steve A. Skaron "SAR processing using SHARC signal processing systems", Proc. SPIE 3371, Automatic Target Recognition VIII, (18 September 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.323842

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