1: Introduction
Abstract
The chapter provides an introduction to the book. A brief history of radar and SAR development is presented. Then the concept or radar detection and ranging as well as imaging are briefly summarized. The remaining part of the chapter is dedicated to the description of the radar equation and to the introduction of the interferometric techniques including differential Interferometry and the more general concept of tomography.
Keywords
Radar; radar imaging; Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR); radar equation; interferometry; differential interferometry; tomography
1.1 Brief history of radar and SAR development
At the end of the 19th century the experiments conducted first by Heinrich Hertz and after by Guglielmo Marconi, highlighted ...
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