SBIR/STTR Research Award
POLARIMETRY BASED SAR SHAPE FROM SHADING FOR TERRAIN RECONSTRUCTION
Award amount
$49,998Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1989Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- VEXCEL CORP.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- EQXKQC98HG17
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
VEXCEL CORPORATION PROPOSES TO DEVELOP ALGORITHMS AND SOFTWARE WHICH INCORPORATE POLARIZATION DATA INTO TECHNIQUES FOR TERRAIN RECONSTRUCTION USING SHAPE-FROM-SHADING IN MULTIPLE-IMAGE, SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) QUADPOLE DATA. THIS REPRESENTS AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM OF RESOLVING THE AMBIGUITIES INHERENT IN ATTRIBUTING THE CHANGES IN SAR IMAGE SHADING TO EITHER ACTUAL CHANGES IN TERRAIN SLOPE OR TO CHANGES IN SCATTERING CROSS SECTION. THIS SOLUTION WILL COMBINE COMPLEX POLARIZATION DATA WITH SPATIAL DATA TO ACHIEVE HIGHER RESOLUTION TERRAIN RECONSTRUCTION FROM SAR DATA THAN CAN BE OBTAINED BY RADAR STEREO TECHNIQUES ALONE.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Information Exploitation
- Real-time Model Based Target Recognition System
- Information Exploitation
- Novel Polarimetric SAR Interferometry Algorithms
- Software Tools for Modeling Urban Details
Research funding history
75 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1985–2006). Reported award amounts total $18,902,110. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation, Department of Energy