26 lb SAR

[Armin Doerry]

Sandia National Laboratories has just completed its initial series of test
flights of a 26 lb. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). Spotlight images were
formed in real-time on-board the SAR down to 4-inch (10 cm) resolution.

[Chuck Riechers]

Is this based on their LYNX radar technology? I take it this is a Ku band
system....

Chuck

Post by Armin Doerry
Sandia National Laboratories has just completed its initial series of test
flights of a 26 lb. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). Spotlight images were
formed in real-time on-board the SAR down to 4-inch (10 cm) resolution.
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Armin Doerry

[Armin Doerry]

It is Ku-band. While the design team included many of the designers of the
Lynx radar, this new "MiniSAR" is otherwise unrelated to the Lynx system.
Naturally, some design philosphies are common (including techniques for high
image quality), and are common to other Sandia designed systems as well, but
the MiniSAR should not be construed as a derivative of the Lynx system.

Sandia designed the Lynx system specifically for General Atomics at their
request, which now produces it. General Atomics was uninvolved with the
MiniSAR design.

Armin
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Armin Doerry

Post by Chuck Riechers
Is this based on their LYNX radar technology? I take it this is a Ku band
system....
Chuck

Post by Armin Doerry
Sandia National Laboratories has just completed its initial series of
test flights of a 26 lb. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). Spotlight
images were formed in real-time on-board the SAR down to 4-inch (10 cm)
resolution.
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Armin Doerry

[j***@yahoo.com]

Post by Armin Doerry
It is Ku-band. While the design team included many of the designers of the
Lynx radar, this new "MiniSAR" is otherwise unrelated to the Lynx system.
Naturally, some design philosphies are common (including techniques for high
image quality), and are common to other Sandia designed systems as well, but
the MiniSAR should not be construed as a derivative of the Lynx system.
Sandia designed the Lynx system specifically for General Atomics at their
request, which now produces it. General Atomics was uninvolved with the
MiniSAR design.
Armin

Congrats Armin, SNL keeps pushing the state-of-SAR better and better.
Have you completed any ISLR or PSLR analysis of the image?
Please dont complicate the system by making it produce other than NITF
formats (the .limg is a problem).
Send me an email with the POC so we can take one out to the field.

Bob

[Armin Doerry]

Post by j***@yahoo.com

Post by Armin Doerry
It is Ku-band. While the design team included many of the designers of the
Lynx radar, this new "MiniSAR" is otherwise unrelated to the Lynx system.
Naturally, some design philosphies are common (including techniques for high
image quality), and are common to other Sandia designed systems as well, but
the MiniSAR should not be construed as a derivative of the Lynx system.
Sandia designed the Lynx system specifically for General Atomics at their
request, which now produces it. General Atomics was uninvolved with the
MiniSAR design.
Armin

Congrats Armin, SNL keeps pushing the state-of-SAR better and better.
Have you completed any ISLR or PSLR analysis of the image?
Please dont complicate the system by making it produce other than NITF
formats (the .limg is a problem).
Send me an email with the POC so we can take one out to the field.
Bob

To make it easy and compatible with our existing analysis tools, we output
images in Sandia's own GFF format. We are working on conversion software to
NITF 2.1 but this is not a high priority at this time... The standard is
difficult to decipher, and problematic for including all the annotation we
desire for our images... We need a customer pull to make it happen in
earnest...

Impulse response is nearly ideal (using Taylor weighting)... Initial
opportunistic measurements indicate a MNR (ISLR) in the low 20's of dB...
i.e. very good...

POC is Kurt Sorensen, the manager nominally in charge of this project... He
can be reached at
***@sandia.gov
505-845-9583

It wouldn't hurt for you to mention to him your views on NITF images...

Armin

[ralph]

Armin, what is the nominal operating range for this SAR system?

Thanks

[Chuck Riechers]

I'm one of the sensor leads in the OSD UAV Task Force and run many of the
Department's UAV Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrations. We arranged to
fly the LYNX in Iraq and did some extensive work using its CCD functions.
We'd be interested in talking to you about possible demonstration
opportunities.

Chuck

PS: NITF is the only way to go if you are interested in getting DOD as a
customer.

Post by Armin Doerry

Post by j***@yahoo.com

Post by Armin Doerry
It is Ku-band. While the design team included many of the designers of the
Lynx radar, this new "MiniSAR" is otherwise unrelated to the Lynx system.
Naturally, some design philosphies are common (including techniques for high
image quality), and are common to other Sandia designed systems as well, but
the MiniSAR should not be construed as a derivative of the Lynx system.
Sandia designed the Lynx system specifically for General Atomics at their
request, which now produces it. General Atomics was uninvolved with the
MiniSAR design.
Armin

Congrats Armin, SNL keeps pushing the state-of-SAR better and better.
Have you completed any ISLR or PSLR analysis of the image?
Please dont complicate the system by making it produce other than NITF
formats (the .limg is a problem).
Send me an email with the POC so we can take one out to the field.
Bob

To make it easy and compatible with our existing analysis tools, we output
images in Sandia's own GFF format. We are working on conversion software
to NITF 2.1 but this is not a high priority at this time... The standard
is difficult to decipher, and problematic for including all the annotation
we desire for our images... We need a customer pull to make it happen in
earnest...
Impulse response is nearly ideal (using Taylor weighting)... Initial
opportunistic measurements indicate a MNR (ISLR) in the low 20's of dB...
i.e. very good...
POC is Kurt Sorensen, the manager nominally in charge of this project...
He can be reached at
505-845-9583
It wouldn't hurt for you to mention to him your views on NITF images...
Armin
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Armin Doerry