Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR), a Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)-built reconfigurable, polarimetric L-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR), is specifically designed to acquire airborne repeat-track SAR data for differential interferometric measurements.
The radar is designed to be operable on a UAV (Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle) but will initially be demonstrated on a NASA Gulfstream III. The radar is fully polarimetric, with a range bandwidth of 80 MHz (2-m range resolution) and a range swath greater than 16 km.
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Data Products
Dataset Description:
- Airborne SAR — synthetic aperture radar
- 2008-present
- Locations: portions of North America; Greenland; Iceland; and North, Central, and South America
- Polarimetric L-band and interferometric products
Downloadable Products:
- PolSAR — polarimetric SAR
- MLC, Compressed Stokes Matrix, Ground Projected Complex, Pauli Decomposition
- RPI — repeat pass interferometry
- Interferogram, Ground Projected Interferogram, Amplitude, Ground Projected Amplitude
More information is available at the JPL UAVSAR website.
Coverage Maps
UAVSAR Technical Specs
Frequency | L-band |
Polarization | Full |
Resolution (range) | 1.8 m |
Swath Width | 16 km |
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UAVSAR Datasets and DOIs
Dataset | DOI |
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UAVSAR_POLSAR | 10.5067/7PEQV8SVR4DM |
UAVSAR_RPI | 10.5067/R0ARICRBAKYE |