High-Performance Polar Airborne Ultra-Wideband Radar Imaging Capability with a Light Turboprop Aircraft
Conference: EUSAR 2021 - 13th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
03/29/2021 - 04/01/2021 at online
Proceedings: EUSAR 2021
Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF
Authors:
Awasthi, Abhishek K; O'Neill, Charles; Taylor, Drew; Yan, Jie-Bang; Gogineni, Prasad; Mulani, Sameer; Li, Linfeng; Elluru, Deepak; Nickerson, Natalie; Horstman, Adam (Remote Sensing Center, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA)
Lee, Joohan; Chung, Changhyun (Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, S. Korea)
Abstract:
Polar regions are among the least known and most challenging areas of Earth in terms of their topography, water mass and transport, and accessibility. This paper shows a solution for advanced SAR capabilities on a DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft platform suitable for radar measurements of Polar regions. The aircraft is integrated with an 8-channel 170-470 MHz ultra-wideband (UWB) radar capable of sounding Polar ice sheets and ice layers down to the bed. We designed, constructed, and tested sub-systems, including a test of the RF electronics with a surface vehicle on the Greenland ice sheet.