Authors: Nick Walker, Ralf Horn, Matteo Nannini, Armando Marino and Iain Woodhouse
The SARTOM project has addressed a key area of defence interest, namely the detection and identification of targets hidden in foliage. The project has provided a rich source of data obtained from a series of flight trials that were conducted in September 2006 at a test site near Munich, Germany. This multi-frequency (X-, C- and L-Band) and fully polarimetric data set has been examined with the use of advanced processing techniques designed to extract the maximum amount of information contained in the data: namely SAR tomography and the analysis of multi-polarimetric scattering characteristics of the foliage and target signatures.