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General Radar Education

 

• DC-8/AIRSAR Flight Request Form
• What is Imaging Radar?
• AIRSAR Overview
• The NASA/JPL Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar System (PDF)
• The NASA/JPL AIRSAR Integrated Processor System
• Polarimetric Interferometry
• Modes Planned for PacRim 2000

 

AIRSAR Platform Information

 

• PACRIM2 Floor Plan
• NASA DC-8 Summary
• DC-8 Information at NASA Dryden Research Center
• DC-8 Five Year Plan
• Dryden Airborne Science Home Page

 

Technical Manuals

 

• AIRSAR General Reference Manual
• Table of Contents (PDF format)
• Chapter 1 (PDF format)
• Chapter 2 (PDF format)
• Chapter 3 (PDF format)
• Chapter 4 (PDF format)
• References (PDF format)
• Data Formats
• TOPSAR (PDF format)
• POLSAR
• SYNOPTIC

 

AIRSAR Engineering and Research

 

• AIRSAR Antenna Information
• AIRSAR Characteristics
• AIRSAR System Block Diagram
• AIRSAR Digital System Block Diagram
• AIRSAR Data Flights Used to Evaluate the Vertical Accuracy of Wide Area Differential GPS (WADGPS)

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