Stefan V. Baumgartner

TL;DR: A review about the abilities and needs of today's very high-resolution airborne SAR sensors is given, based on and summarizing the longtime experience of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) with airborne SAR technology and its applications.

TL;DR: An overview of the TanDEM-X mission is provided and results from several scientific radar experiments are presented that show the great potential of future formation-flying interferometric SAR missions to serve novel remote sensing applications.

TL;DR: The first X-band spaceborne-airborne bistatic synthetic aperture radar (SAR) experiment, conducted early November 2007, using the German satellite TerraSAR-X as transmitter and the German Aerospace Center's new airborne radar system F-SAR as receiver, shows a space-variant behavior in spatial resolution and in signal-to-noise ratio.

TL;DR: A fast a priori knowledge-based ground moving target indication and parameter estimation algorithm applicable to single- as well as to multichannel synthetic aperture airborne radar data is presented and enables the estimation of the position and velocity vectors of detected moving vehicles independent of the number of channels.

TL;DR: The objective of the paper is to highlight the limitations and challenges to be considered when processing real, multichannel GMTI data from pioneering SAR sensors for maritime surveillance.