Norway's ERS-1 SAR Processor
Sverre Holm, A. Maoy, Einar‐Arne Herland · 2005
A high-performance processing facility for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is described. The SAR processor is designed for the ERS-1 remote sensing satellite and will process one 100 km by 100 km scene in six to seven minutes. The SAR processor is built around a 320 MFLOPS parallel processor. The front-end processor is a mini-computer which provides the input/output capacity necessary to avoid idle time in the parallel processor, and more than 1 Gbyte storage. The design of hardware for the front-end processor and the parallel processor is given. The software for the SAR-processor is also described.