SAR Product CONtrol Software (SARCON)

Kurzfassung

As SAR instruments and their operating modes become more complex, as new applications place more and more demands on image quality and as our understanding of their imperfections becomes more sophisticated, there is increasing recognition that SAR data quality has to be controlled more comprehensively to keep pace. SARCON is a comprehensive SAR product control software tailored to the new generations of SAR sensors. SARCON profits from the most up-to-date thinking on SAR image per-formance derived from other spaceborne and airborne SAR projects and is based on the newest applications. This paper gives an overview of the structure and the features of this new software tool, which is a product of a co-operation between teams at BAE SYSTEMS Research Centre and DLR under contract to ESA (ESRIN). The product is still under construction and is planned to be finished by October 2000.