Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques FHRScientists at Fraunhofer FHR and the University of Siegen awarded ITG Prize for their excellent publication
The scientists Dr.-Ing. Ingo Walterscheid and Dr.-Ing. Andreas Brenner from Fraunhofer FHR as well as Prof. Dr. Otmar Loffeld and Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Espeter from the University of Siegen received an award from the German Information Technology Society [Informationstechnische Gesellschaft (ITG/VDE)] for one of the three best publications in 2010. The award ceremony took place yesterday evening in the Brandenburg Academy of Sciences in Berlin.
Each year, the Information Technology Society within VDE (Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies) awards the ITG prize for outstanding scientific publications. This year the prize was awarded to the scientists Dr.-Ing. Ingo Walterscheid and Dr.-Ing. Andreas Brenner from the Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques FHR as well as Prof. Dr. Otmar Loffeld and Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Espeter from the University of Siegen for their publication "Bistatic SAR experiments with PAMIR and TerraSAR-X – setup, processing and image results" [1].
Laudator Professor Dr. Ingo Wolff, Chairman of the Executive Committee of ITG: "The prize winners mastered the enormous challenges through systematic analysis of the expected performance, technical precision in the course of the necessary system expansion, meticulous experimental design and outstanding organizational performance when conducting the experiments as well as through subsequent, highly complex signal processing and the precise documentation of the results."
The researchers at Fraunhofer FHR have already been working on the development of new radar imaging techniques for decades. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is capable of creating high-resolution images of the Earth's surface in all weather conditions and independent of the time of day. The publication deals with bistatic radar imaging, where the transmitter and receiver move on separate platforms (in this case a satellite and an airplane). This creates new possibilities for gathering information on the observed area of the Earth's surface. New techniques were developed within the framework of a joint DFG project of Fraunhofer FHR and the University of Siegen. The results were successfully verified through experiments with the German radar satellite TerraSAR-X as illuminator and the airborne SAR sensor of Fraunhofer FHR PAMIR as receiver.
Literature
[1] I. Walterscheid, T. Espeter, A. Brenner, J. Klare, J. Ender, H. Nies, R. Wang, O. Loffeld: Bistatic SAR experiments with PAMIR and TerraSAR-X – setup, processing and image results, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 48, No. 8, August 2010, pp. 3268-3279