Raleigh, NC 27613

This is a corrected reprinting of the 1988 edition originally published by Artech House: Boston.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form whatsoever without written permission from the publisher.

Printed in the United States of America

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

ISBN: 1-891121-31-6

SciTech books may be purchased at quantity discounts for educational, business, or sales promotional use. For information contact the publisher:

SciTech Publishing, Inc.
Raleigh, NC 27613
(919)866-1501
www.scitechpub.com

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Oliver, Chris        Understanding synthetic aperture radar images / Chris Oliver, Shaun Quegan.        Includes bibliographical references and index.        ISBN 1-891121-31-6

TK6592.S95043 2004

97-41709

621.3848 dc21

CIP

To Betty and Sue, who understand

About the Authors

After earning a degree in physics from Worcester College, Oxford, Chris Oliver conducted his doctoral research into low-energy nuclear structure at Liverpool University. In 1967, he joined the photon statistics group at the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (RSRE), Malvern [later the Defence Research Agency (DRA) and now the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA)]. He was one of the joint inventors of the technique of single-clipped photon-correlation spectroscopy exploited in the Malvern Correlator, for...