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Title: Detecing Surface Change Created by an Underground Chemical Explosion Using Fully Polarimetric VideoSAR

Abstract

Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) flew its Facility for Advanced RF and Algorithm Development (FARAD) X-Band (9.6 GHz center frequency), fully-polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) in VideoSAR-mode to collect complex-valued SAR imagery before, during, and after the fifth and sixth Source Physics Experiment's (SPE-5 and SPE-6) underground explosion. The results from the fifth Source Physics Experiment (SPE-5) used single-polarimetric VideoSAR data while SPE-6 used single and fully-polarimetric VideoSAR data. We show that SAR can provide surface change products indicative of disturbances caused by the underground chemical explosions. These are surface coherence measures, Po1SAR change signatures, and differential interferometric SAR (InSAR) height change.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1]
  1. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation
OSTI Identifier:
1481501
Report Number(s):
SAND-2018-12625R
668705
DOE Contract Number:  
AC04-94AL85000; NA0003525
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Citation Formats

Yocky, David A., West, Roger Derek, Riley, Robert, Calloway, Terry M., Wahl, Daniel E., Garley, Leroy, and Bolin, Samuel A. Detecing Surface Change Created by an Underground Chemical Explosion Using Fully Polarimetric VideoSAR. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.2172/1481501.
Yocky, David A., West, Roger Derek, Riley, Robert, Calloway, Terry M., Wahl, Daniel E., Garley, Leroy, & Bolin, Samuel A. Detecing Surface Change Created by an Underground Chemical Explosion Using Fully Polarimetric VideoSAR. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1481501
Yocky, David A., West, Roger Derek, Riley, Robert, Calloway, Terry M., Wahl, Daniel E., Garley, Leroy, and Bolin, Samuel A. 2018. "Detecing Surface Change Created by an Underground Chemical Explosion Using Fully Polarimetric VideoSAR". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1481501. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1481501.
@article{osti_1481501,
title = {Detecing Surface Change Created by an Underground Chemical Explosion Using Fully Polarimetric VideoSAR},
author = {Yocky, David A. and West, Roger Derek and Riley, Robert and Calloway, Terry M. and Wahl, Daniel E. and Garley, Leroy and Bolin, Samuel A},
abstractNote = {Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) flew its Facility for Advanced RF and Algorithm Development (FARAD) X-Band (9.6 GHz center frequency), fully-polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) in VideoSAR-mode to collect complex-valued SAR imagery before, during, and after the fifth and sixth Source Physics Experiment's (SPE-5 and SPE-6) underground explosion. The results from the fifth Source Physics Experiment (SPE-5) used single-polarimetric VideoSAR data while SPE-6 used single and fully-polarimetric VideoSAR data. We show that SAR can provide surface change products indicative of disturbances caused by the underground chemical explosions. These are surface coherence measures, Po1SAR change signatures, and differential interferometric SAR (InSAR) height change.},
doi = {10.2172/1481501},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1481501}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}