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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2002
Applicants:
Alberto Moreira, Olching, DE;
Andreas Reigber, Seefeld, DE;
Inventors:
Alberto Moreira, Olching, DE;
Andreas Reigber, Seefeld, DE;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S013/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
By means of tomograhic radar technique consisting of a coherent combination of large numbers of synthetic aperture radar images acquired by several air or space SAR systems having different look angles, a real three-dimensional imaging of volume scatterers is achieved. This allows the separation of the backscattered signal of volume scatterers in the height direction which can be further evaluated independently. The invention can be put to use in the three-dimensional analysis of vegetation layers and ground strata, but also for imaging and mapping of buildings, urban areas and mountainous terrain.