*** Synthetic Aperture Radar for SAR ***

To: sar_admin@mindlink.bc.ca

Sir, thank you for your quick response.  I will keep you updated on material
that we are working on and let you know any findings that we may find. We
will probably not start anything solid until we return to the Military
College at the end of August. At this time my address will also change, but I
will give that to you at a later date. The suggestions you gave were great
they have given me a little better idea on what to be looking for, but
unfortunately I don`t think the radar that we are dealing is that good.

Synthetic aperature radar is special in that it can monitor temperature
changes but, people buried in snow, woaahh!! The best usage for this kind of
radar is in the monitoring of change. The satellite that I am working on
Radarsat will basically give global coverage every three days, and will make
daily passes on far northern regions. Some of it`s present applications
include, ice movement, agriculture, ship detection, geology, and other earth
observation means. When I mean change perhaps it would be better to give an
example, You basically take initial imagery from the satellite to use as a
reference and by comparing it to other existing data and through data fusion
you will be able to know what each feature in the image represents. By
continually taking new data of the selected region, you can easily detect any
change. For instance in a practical sense, you receive a mayday call of plane
low on full and losing altitude. You know the general area and the
approximate destination of the plane. By taking archived satellite imagery of
the area and comparing it with new recent imagery of the area the plane would
be easily detectable. Now I know this is not perfect in there are a lot of
different conditions involved, but the imagery can narrow down the search
making rescue quicker.  There are still a lot of loose ends, but I think we
may be able to improve things.  Just to give you an idea of the powers of
radar.

Thank you once again,

Ryan New.

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