Introduction to Radar Imaging

Math 676

INTRODUCTION TO RADAR IMAGING



Homework

See course notes on RamCT
#1. due Wed., Sept. 4: Section E.6: 2-6, 8
#2. due Wed., Sept. 11: Section E.6: 1, 7, 9; Section 2.5: 1, 2, 3
#3. due Wed., Sept. 18: Section 2.5: 4, 5
#4. due FRIDAY, Sept. 27: Section B.13: 1, 2; Section 2.5: 6
#5. due Wed., Oct. 2: Section 3.3: 1; Section 4.6: 6
#6. due Wed., Oct. 9: Section 4.6: 1, 2, 4, 5
#7. due Wed., Oct. 16: Section 4.6: 7, 8, 9 ; Section 3.3: 1 (re-do using hints from class)
#8. due Wed., Oct. 23: Section 5.3: 1, 2, 3
#9. due Wed., Oct. 30: Appendix F.4: 1, 2, 3, 4 (Note that appendix on distributions in RamCT draft has been updated!)
#10. due Wed. Nov. 6: Appendix F.4: 5, 6, 8, 9
#11. due Wed., Nov. 13: Section 6.4: 7(b,c,d), 9; Section 7.5: 2
#12. due Wed., Nov. 20: Make an image from the radar data posted on RamCT.
#13. due FRIDAY, Dec. 6: Section 8.5: 1

Papers on non-uniform FFTs have now been posted on our RamCT course page.
You can request your own DVD of radar data from the URL https://www.sdms.afrl.af.mil/main.php . (On the menu to the left, click on "request data", and then on "Visual-D".)

Research papers showing some work using the above data can be found here and here .


  • Review paper by Brett Borden
  • Sandia Radar home page
  • Envisat (European Space Agency environmental monitoring satellite) home page
  • European Space Agency home page
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory home page. JPL builds radar imaging satellites, airborne systems, and space vehicles. Click on "Earth" to get to the remote sensing material.
  • home page for Howard Zebker's radar group at Stanford
  • Lincoln Laboratories home page. Lincoln Laboratories does a lot of radar imaging research, and they have summer opportunities for students. Deadlines are typically in November for internships the following summer.
  • TerraSAR-X the new German radar satellite

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