Exercise Narwhal: Visibility of Deployed Radar Targets and Change Detection with RADARSAT-1 Fine Beam Mode SAR Imagery

Abstract

In August 2004 the Canadian Forces undertook Exercise Narwhal near Pangnirtung on Baffin Island. DRDC Ottawa participated in a supporting role, providing corner reflectors to simulate several crashed satellite debris fields and RADARSAT-1 synthetic aperture radar data collects in interferometric pairs and triplets. The interferometric data provided images for demonstration of coherent and non-coherent change detection. This report assesses the detection of the deployed satellite debris fields as well as scene changes on land and in the littoral zone around the time of the exercise.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA443110

Entities

People

  • David Schlingmeier
  • Karim E. Mattar
  • Paris W. Vachon
  • Ryan English

Organizations

  • Defence Research and Development Canada

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Baffin Island
  • Change Detection
  • Corner Reflectors
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Sets
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Littoral Zones
  • Measurement
  • National Security
  • Radar Targets
  • Security
  • Space Systems
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar

Readers

  • European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP).
  • Polar and Arctic Studies
  • Radar Systems Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Space Objects