Latest Synthetic aperture radar Stories

DENVER, CO, June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Intermap (TSX: IMP), (ITMSF:BB), a leading provider of geospatial solutions on-demand created from its uniform, high-resolution 3D digital models of the earth's surface, today announced that the Company was awarded a US $905,000 task order from Dewberry Consultants LLC for the fifth phase expansion of its previously announced airborne radar mapping services project in Alaska. Additional contract funding for this project may occur at future...

Planned for 5-Year Mission Life, Satellite Provided Earth Observations for More Than 17 Years BOULDER, Colo., May 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Earth observation satellite built for the Canadian government has concluded its mission after serving the organization for more than 17 years--12 years longer than its mission life. Radarsat-1 launched in 1995 for an expected 5-year mission. It was Canada's first and oldest Earth monitoring satellite and...

Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A NASA aircraft carrying the Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) is finishing up a month-long mission to address a broad range of scientific questions over the Americas, including the dynamics of the Earth’s crust, glaciers and the carbon cycle. The flights began on March 7 from NASA’s Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, California and observed areas of the Earth from the Gulf Coast to...

WASHINGTON, April 3, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A versatile NASA airborne imaging radar system is showcasing its broad scientific prowess for studying our home planet during a month-long expedition over the Americas. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) A NASA C-20A piloted aircraft carrying the Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) is wrapping up studies over the U.S. Gulf Coast, Arizona, and Central and South America. The plane...

ESA [ Watch The Video Hidden Treasures ] Looking down from orbit is an attractive way of monitoring historical sites in remote or politically unstable regions – and can even help archaeologists to make new discoveries. The ancient city of Samarra was a powerful Islamic capital during the ninth century, located in what is today Iraq. It is the only surviving Islamic capital that retains its original plan, architecture and arts, although only about 20% of the site has been excavated....

DENVER, March 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Intermap (TSX: IMP), (ITMSF:BB), a leading provider of geospatial solutions on-demand created from its uniform, high-resolution 3D digital models of the earth's surface, today announced that the Company was awarded a US $750,000 task order from Dewberry Consultants LLC for the fourth phase expansion of its previously announced airborne radar mapping services project in Alaska. Additional contract funding for this project may occur at future...

ESA An important milestone has been reached for ESA’s Sentinel-3 mission. The satellite platform has been delivered to the Prime Contractor in France where the instruments will be installed and tested along with the numerous components that make up this sophisticated new mission to monitor Earth. Once complete, Sentinel-3 will host an array of state-of-the-art instruments that mainly focus on measuring different aspects of ocean waters, such as the temperature and color of the surface...

ESA Satellite radar data are being used to map Earth’s vital resources. The latest advances and applications of the POLinSAR remote sensing technique were highlighted at a conference held last week. Polarimetric InSAR – or POLinSAR – is a remote sensing technique based on polarimetric information in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. With this technique, a radar sends polarised pulses towards the target, and the information in the signals backscattered from Earth can be...

The detection and recognition of an object with small RCS, such as a stealth target, is the most difficult problem to solve for the modern radar system. Professor Hu Cheng and his group at Radar Research Lab, Beijing Institute of Technology set out to tackle this problem. After seven years of innovative research, they have developed a series of methods to detect, track and recognize some targets with small RCS. In particular, they proposed a novel imaging method based on the principle...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- After multiple ground demonstrations in operational environments, a Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) penetrating radar capability that can peer through trees to detect slowly moving troops and ground vehicles is ready for the next step in testing. A ground/Dismounted-moving target indication (GMTI/DMTI) system developed for the U.S. Army's Tactical Reconnaissance and Counter-Concealment-Enabled Radar (TRACER) has been integrated into a modular...