Synthetic Aperture Radar Processing (Electronic Engineering Systems Series) [Hardcover]

Giorgio Franceschetti (Author), Riccardo Lanari (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0849378990 | ISBN-13: 978-0849378997 | Publication Date: March 30, 1999 | Edition: 1

Synthetic Aperture Radar Processing simply and methodically presents principles and techniques of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image generation by analyzing its system transfer function. The text considers the full array of operation modes from strip to scan, emphasizes processing techniques, enabling the design of operational SAR codes. A simple example then follows.
This book will be invaluable to all SAR scientists and engineers working in the field. It may be used as the basis for a course on SAR image generation or as a reference book on remote sensing. It contains a wide spectrum of information presented with clarity and rigor.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 328 pages
• Publisher: CRC Press; 1 edition (March 30, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0849378990
• ISBN-13: 978-0849378997
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,468,469 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good information, March 7, 2003

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This review is from: Synthetic Aperture Radar Processing (Electronic Engineering Systems Series) (Hardcover)

I cut my teeth on SAR with this text. It was not altogether painless. Franceshetti and Lanari have a bad habit of not defining variables once declared, or even telling what they are and mean until up to 127 pages later. If you pay close attention you'll stumble across their definition. The theory is well suited for those who know SAR and can appreciate the author's transfer function emphasis. The accomplishments and contributions of both authors are not in doubt (they have published many papers on the subject) but clarity of phenomena is wonting here. Part of this is due to the abstract nature of this subject and my early entry to it by what is a lovely text with supreme SAR imagery. Most thankfully, at the end we find software code is included to clarify, converting theory to practice and defining some of those variables.