DOSAR : a multifrequency polarimetric and interferometric airborne SAR-system

Presents the operational outlines of the multifrequency polarimetric airborne interferometric SAR system of the EADS/Dornier owned DOSAR. The simultaneous combination of full polarimetric with interferometric data makes it the only SAR system world-wide to collect cadastral information for mapping and land-use classification gathered within a single flight path. The DOSAR system is operational on a wide range of different aircraft. It is suitable for data collection for scientific, commercial and sovereignty as well as military applications. It has displayed its world-wide availability in a number of national flight campaigns in Germany as well as international applications in Austria, Switzerland, Indonesia and Thailand. Examples from these campaigns show the quality of high resolution SAR-data for mapping and classification.