And an image like the one shown above of Washington, D.C., is made up of several million pixels. This SAR image of Washington, D.C., was taken on a snowy night in 1994.

Unlike optical sensors, the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) at the heart of the Nisar mission expected to launch at 5.40pm ...

Learn how Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) allows satellites to see through clouds and darkness, monitoring Earth's changes day ...

SAR systems are designed to provide higher-resolution imagery than standard radar systems. With a SAR system, for example, "you’re trying to not only get a blip on the screen but actually some ...

SAR image from Iceye showing a highway intersection in Mozambique. On Friday, Finland-based imaging satellite startup Iceye announced that it’s now capable of producing radar images with a ...

Unfortunately, QPS-SAR-3 and -4 – which were expected to achieve even higher resolution and image quality and were also equipped with the IDRS™ service – did not make it into orbit due to ...

Umbra’s SAR satellites can see through clouds, smoke and total darkness with industry-leading resolution, licensed down to 13 cm. Maxar will leverage decades of SAR processing expertise, as well ...