Single and Repeat-Pass Interferometry Using the Ku-Band SARDrone System

• Published in: IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium pp. 1954 - 1958
• Main Authors: Ruiz-Carregal, Gerard, Lort, Marc, Yam, Luis, Masalias, Gerard, Makhoul, Eduard, Iglesias, Ruben, Heredia, Antonio, Gonzalez, Alex, Centolanza, Giuseppe, Gili, Albert, Calvo, Oriol, Faridi, Azadeh, Monells, Dani, Duro, Javier
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 07-07-2024
• Subjects: airborne; Airborne radar; backprojection; Deformation; drone; FMCW radar; Geometry; Geoscience and remote sensing; InSAR; repeat-pass; RPA; SAR; Satellites; Spaceborne radar; Spatial resolution; UAV
• ISSN: 2153-7003
• DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10642178

Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems have been widely used in the last decades, especially for research purposes, offering higher revisiting time, better spatial resolution, and flexible acquisition geometry compared to satellite radar systems. In recent years, the rapid technological evolution of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) has opened up the possibility of integrating SAR systems into these agile platforms, allowing the community to explore the new possibilities that they can offer. The present paper introduces the interferometric capabilities of a new Ku-Band SAR system, called SARDrone, that has been completely developed and integrated into an RPA by DARES Technology. The document aims to present the first results obtained with the SARDrone system that demonstrate the inherent potential of multicopter platforms applied to SAR interferometry.