ArcSAR for detecting target elevation

Authors :: Massimiliano Pieraccini
Lapo Miccinesi
Source :: Electronics Letters. 52:1559-1561
Publication Year :: 2016
Publisher :: Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), 2016.
Abstract: ArcSAR is a Synthetic Aperture Radar which recently has been receiving increasing interest in scientific literature. It operates exploiting the spatial diversity of the data acquired by an antenna fixed to a rotating arm. Its great advantage is its capability to synthesise images at 360° with constant resolution in azimuth. The ArcSAR, in addition to operate as interferometric differential radar, can detect the elevation of the targets, i.e. it is potentially able to generate digital elevation models of the surrounding field of view.