Improved Real-Time SAR Simulation in Urban Areas

Within the paper the applicability of modern graphic cards for SAR simulation is demonstrated. By these means SAR simulation, which is frequently used as a key tool for the analysis and interpretation of SAR scenes, is feasible in real-time even in complex urban environments. This is realised by the implementation of SAR geometry within standard graphics hardware, which offers 3D hardware acceleration and programmable graphics processing units (GPU).