The NASA/JPL AIRSAR Integrated Processor

The NASA/JPL AIRSAR Integrated Processor (AIP) is a multi-frequency polarimetric and interferometric SAR processor designed to produce data useful for better understanding of scattering from different types of Earth terrain. The processor is utilized to automatically generate co-registered multifrequency images from both polarimetric and interferometric data collection modes. When one frequency interferometric Digital Elevation Map (DEM) is available, all channel images of three-frequency are projected and terrain-corrected to the DEM. All AIP products are corrected geometrically, polarimetrically, and radiometrically. This paper describes the implementation of the operational AIRSAR Integrated Processor.