SAR Workbench

Over the course of several years the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) SeaLab group in the Remote Sensing Division has been developing a suite of software applications for analyzing SAR imagery referred to as the NRL SAR Workbench, and providing limited distribution of the software package to interested parties. This suite of tools are software applications with a graphical user interface (GUI) written in the Java programming language that provide visual displays of SAR images, interactive selection of areas of interest, and tools for processing and analysis of those selected regions. The image processing, visual color rendering, and analysis tools are written in the C programming language and are called from the Java source code as C compiled executables. Through work performed by NRL, its contractor CPI, and a MITRE consultant (Simplex, LLC), the NRL SAR Workbench was extended to include a polarimetric SAR processing capability.