Research and Development Status Report for GeoSAR. A Radar Based Terrain Mapping Project. Year 1.

Abstract

GeoSAR is a project to develop a commercial airborne, radar based, terrain mapping system utilizing technology originally developed by NASA and ARPA for commercial and defense applications. This report details the Year l's efforts (March 1994 through June 1995) to investigate use of interferometric synthetic aperture radar (IFSAR) for mapping geologic hazards, and land use and land cover. The work plan is a 4 year end user driven application and systems development and verification process, with the final goal being commercialization of the technology to serve the end-user community. Year 2's efforts will focus on development of foliage penetrating (FOPEN) capabilities for mapping true ground surface and expanding end-user applications. Years 3 and 4 will concentrate on systems' development and commercialization.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA308022

Entities

Organizations

  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Photography
  • Cameras
  • Computational Science
  • Databases
  • Detection
  • Drainage Basins
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Geometry
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Image Processing
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Photographs
  • Photography
  • Three Dimensional
  • World Geodetic System

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.