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Synthetic Aperture Radar Metadata Content Working Group (P4002) Status Report

Webinar Speaker:

Richard Naething

Affiliation:

Sandia National Laboratories

About the Webinar

The P4002 group is developing a common data model for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). The global SAR market is flourishing, with a corresponding shift from the historic use of SAR which was the sole domain of experts whose workflow typically utilized only one or a small number of sensors – to today where there are many civil and commercial SAR missions with data widely available to the public. It is now not uncommon for novices to use SAR data and for SAR domain experts to utilize data from across a large number of sensors. This change precipitates a need for additional data standards.

SAR related tools and processing chains are often very complex and expensive to develop and maintain. Standards allow code reuse and amortization of this cost across many sensors and missions.

Standards allow encapsulation of complexity which enables the development of solutions to increasingly challenging technical problems. Finally, standards make it easier for non-experts to apply this data to their own problems.

This talk will detail the goals, history, status, and future of the P4002 working group including describing the process and tools utilized in the development process. The overall goal of this standard is to describe the SAR sensor, operating modes and parameters, the collection and acquisition of SAR data, and processing algorithms that have been applied along with related parameters. This standard will enable development of SAR processing toolchains that can work across a large variety of SAR sensors on both airborne and spaceborne platforms. This standard focuses on single look complex (SLC) images, which is the primary data layer for most SAR algorithms, and a point in the processing chain where most of the sensor specific compensation have been applied.

About the Speaker

Richard Naething

Richard Naething is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, the nation’s premier science and engineering laboratory for national security and technology innovation. He works in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance at Sandia, where he develops imaging radar systems and algorithms. He has five patents in the fields of radar and digital communication systems and has authored several publications on radar and signal processing.

He is active in the amateur radio community and is a member of the Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL), the Sandia National Laboratories Amateur Radio Club (W5MPZ), and Rocky Mountain Ham Radio.

Richard Naething graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a bachelor’s degree in computer and systems engineering in 2004. He pursued graduate studies at The University of Texas at Austin, receiving a master’s degree in 2006 and a doctoral degree in 2010, both in electrical engineering.

Richard joined Sandia National Laboratories in 2010.

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