SAR References

Est. read time: 2 minutes | Last updated: October 22, 2025 by John Gentile

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Contents

• Open-Source SAR Repos
• SAR Data Sources

• I. G. Cumming and F. H. Wong, Digital Processing of Synthetic Aperture Radar Data: Algorithms and Implementation, Artech House, 2005.
• W. G. Carrara and R. M. Majewski and R. S. Goodman, Spotlight Synthetic Aperture Radar: Signal Processing Algorithms, Artech House, 1995.
• L. J. Cantafio, Space-Based Radar Handbook, Artech House, 1989.
• Introduction to Synthetic Aperture Radar Using Python and MATLAB - GitHub
• SAR 101: An Introduction to Synthetic Aperture Radar - Capella Space
  • SAR 201: An Introduction to Synthetic Aperture Radar, Part 2
• OSTI.gov
  • Basics of Polar-Format algorithm for processing Synthetic Aperture Radar images
  • Bistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar - Issues Analysis and Design
  • Generating nonlinear FM chirp waveforms for radar
  • SAR processing with non-linear FM chirp waveforms
• A Review of Synthetic-Aperture Radar Image Formation Algorithms and Implementations: A Computational Perspective
• Squinted Spotlight Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Image Formation - MATLAB
• Stripmap Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Image Formation - MATLAB
• Radar for Space Observation: Systems, Methods and Applications
• Interference Mitigation for Synthetic Aperture Radar Based on Deep Residual Network
• Synthetic Impulse and Aperture Radar (SIAR): A Novel Multi‐Frequency MIMO Radar

Open-Source SAR Repos

• Homemade Polarimetric SAR Drone - Henrik’s Blog
• https://github.com/RadarCODE/awesome-sar
• ngageoint/sarypy
• https://github.com/ron-kemker/sar
• https://github.com/AlexeyPechnikov/pygmtsar
  • https://insar.dev/
• https://github.com/insarlab/MintPy
• Alaska Satellite Facility

SAR Data Sources

• Sandia Pathfinder Radar ISR & SAR Systems
  • Sandia Complex SAR Data
• Capella Open Data
  • Capella SAR Open Dataset - AWS Open Data Registry
• Umbra Open Data Catalog
  • Umbra Open Data Resources
  • Look at how boxMica does automated MTI & AI/ML on Umbra open data SAR
  • Look at Coherent Chage Detection (CCD) w/Umbra open data like this
• ICEYE SLC/GRD for Research
• Open Radar Initiative Github (micro-Doppler)
• My lab’s CI4R Github (micro-Doppler)
• Australian Unified Radar Archive (weather radar data)
• RADIATE (multi-modal automotive radar dataset)
• NuScenes (multi-modal automotive radar dataset)
• DLR Marine Radar Dataset for Tracking
• Dop-NET (micro-Doppler)
• NASA SAR Datasets for Earth Observation
• Labeled SAR dataset of geophysical phenomenon
• High-resolution SAR image dataset for ship detection
• AFRL MSTAR SAR Dataset
• Radar signatures of human activities

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