The Overview of Civilian Applications of Airborne SAR Systems

The Overview of Civilian Applications of Airborne SAR Systems Maciej Smolarczyk, Piotr Samczyński Andrzej Gadoś, Maj Mordzonek Research and Development Department of PIT S.A.

PART I WHAT DOES SAR MEAN? SEARCH AND RESCUE???

SAR RADAR Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is radar mapping technique for generating high-resolution maps in slant and cross range. It is possible because the SAR radar is installed on moving platforms. The moving radar can be treated as a long linear antenna array with a large amount of dipoles, which length is equal to radar flight path. The very long antenna has very narrow beamwidth and can ensure the very high cross-range resolution. It means that synthetic antenna beamwidth is much more narrow than real antenna pattern.

PART II Polish Airborne SAR Radar Systems

POLISH SAR RADAR SYSTEMS ARS-800: M28 Bryza-1RM/Bis (Polish Navy): ARS-400M: M28 Skytruck (Polish Borderguard):

POLISH SAR RADAR SYSTEMS Main features: frequency: 9.2 9.5 GHz maximum range: 220 km scanned strip width: 22 km scanned area: over 5500 km 2 /h resolution: 15 m range / 15 m azimuth flight direction (azimuth) scanned strip width (cross range)

POLISH SAR RADAR SYSTEMS ARS-400M/800 SAR radars components: X-band antenna system transceiver receiver Radar Workstation DSP unit

EXAMPLES OF SAR IMAGES Gdańska Bay North Harbour

EXAMPLES OF SAR IMAGES Gdańska Bay Gdynia Harbour

ZOBRAZOWANIE SAR Rzeka Wisła okolice Mielca

Part III Applications of SAR systems

SAR SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS Examples of SAR systems applications: real-time high resolution ground mapping

REAL-TIME GROUND MAPPING Łeba city with neighborhood resolution 1.5 x 15 m

SAR SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS Examples of SAR systems applications: real-time high resolution ground mapping real-time monitoring of important areas, ex. industrial areas, power plants, power energy lines, control of roads, road works, etc.

MONITORING OF IMPORTANT AREAS Łeba city with neighborhood

MONITORING OF IMPORTANT AREAS Power Plant Żarnowiec

SAR SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS Examples of SAR systems applications: real-time high resolution ground mapping real-time monitoring of important areas, ex. industrial areas, power plants, power energy lines etc., control of roads, road works, monitoring of sea surface, sea side and sea surface pollutions

SEA MONITORING Polish seaside

SEA MONITORING fishing nets fishing nets

SEA MONITORING submarine ships in circulation

SAR SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS Examples of SAR systems applications: real-time high resolution ground mapping real-time monitoring of important areas, ex. industrial areas, power plants, power energy lines, control of roads, road works, monitoring of sea surface, sea side and sea surface pollutions control of ice surface and ice-jams on rivers, lakes, bays

ICE SURFACE CONTROL Wiślany Bay

SAR SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS Examples of SAR systems applications: real-time high resolution ground mapping real-time monitoring of important areas, ex. industrial areas, power plants, power energy lines, control of roads, road works, etc. monitoring of sea surface, sea side and sea surface pollutions control of ice surface and ice-jams on rivers, lakes, bays detection of moving targets with velocity estimation

MOVING TARGET DETECTION Way to Łeby city: 1. 50 km/h across from plane 2 i 3. 60 km/h across to plane 4. 20 km/h along to plane

SAR SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS Examples of SAR systems applications: real-time high resolution ground mapping real-time monitoring of important areas, ex. industrial areas, power plants, power energy lines, control of roads, road works, etc. monitoring of sea surface, sea side and sea surface pollutions control of ice surface and ice-jams on rivers, lakes, bays detection of moving targets with velocity estimation moving targets identification in ISAR mode

TARGETS IDENTIFICATION ISAR image of tanker

SAR SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS Examples of SAR systems applications: real-time high resolution ground mapping real-time monitoring of important areas, ex. industrial areas, power plants, power energy lines, control of roads, road works, etc. monitoring of sea surface, sea side and sea surface pollutions control of ice surface and ice-jams on rivers, lakes, bays detection of moving targets with velocity estimation moving targets identification in ISAR mode areas identification and classification in COLOURMAPPING mode

AREAS IDENTIFICATION coniferous trees deciduous trees

SAR SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS Examples of SAR systems applications: real-time high resolution ground mapping real-time monitoring of important areas, ex. industrial areas, power plants, power energy lines, control of roads, road works, etc. monitoring of sea surface, sea side and sea surface pollutions control of ice surface and ice-jams on rivers, lakes, bays detection of moving targets with velocity estimation moving targets identification in ISAR mode areas identification and classification in COLOURMAPPING mode many, many different applications like

CONCLUSSIONS SAR radars allows: real-time high resolution ground mapping targets detection (also moving targets) targets identification areas identification and classification SAR systems advantages: imaging from a long distance obtain images independent to time (day or night) and visibility (rain, snow, clouds, fog) real-time control of wide areas

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