L&S Band SAR Data Processing and Products

Abstract

L&S Band airborne SAR(LS-ASAR) is an airborne dual band polarimetric SAR developed by ISRO, as a precursor to NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR). The basic objectives of developing the L&S band airborne SAR are to study the RCS signatures of various features in L & S frequency bands at variable incidence angles, to demonstrate the utilization of multi-frequency SAR data in both independent and simultaneous operation modes for various applications and to demonstrate new hardware systems being built for NISAR. A research announcement (RA) was made to the scientists / researchers to develop algorithms for SAR data utilization corresponding to various science themes.