A display method allocating SAR image and ATI phase map to value and saturation, respectively

Abstract

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) can take a fine radar image without relation to sunshine condition, so it is important to propose the display method that fulfills a user's demand. SAR provides some information with high-level process. To confirm both SAR image and the results of the high-level process simultaneously, the color display is effective. However, conventional method has the restriction of color combination. In this context, we proposed the display method focusing the saturation. The proposed method superimposed the phase map of along track interferometry, which is one of the high-level processes, on SAR image with good visibility. In this paper, we discuss the effect of the proposed display method, explain its formularization, and demonstrate the effect by airborne SAR data.