Acknowledgements
This book is built on radar imaging activities conducted at the Centre National d’Etudes
Spatiales (CNES), Centre de Toulouse, between 1986 and 2007. We gratefully ack-
nowledge for their support two former directors of CNES, Michel Courtois for having
encouraged us to undertake the writing of a comprehensive book on SAR imaging, and
Pierre Moskwa for his support during the last steps of this project.
SAR images, whether airborne or spaceborne, are the core of this book. We thank
the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI), the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), the Deutsche
Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), the European Space Agency (ESA), the
Japanese Space Agency (JAXA), the Jet propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the National
Aeronautics and SpaceAdministration (NASA),the NPO Mashinostroyeniye company
the Office National des Etudes Aérospatiales (ONERA), for allowing us to use some
of their results. We also wish to acknowledge the efforts of several colleagues and
friends who supported this work in a variety of ways. While this is undoubtedly not a
complete list, this book would be unfinished and inaccurate without the help Thierry
Amiot, Pierre Borderies, Jérôme Bruniquel, Professor Paul-François Combes, Bruno
Cugny, Pascale Dubois-Fernandez, Pierre-Louis Frison, Thuy Le Toan, Jon Sen Lee,
Henri-José Mametsa, Philippe Marchal, Anjali Mathur, Professor Eric Pottier, Nadine
Pourthié and her trainees, as well as Céline Tison, Ridha Touzi and Hélène Vadon.
The writing of this book progressed in a irregular fashion. We warmly thank
Daniel Rosenfeld for having expressed keen interest in our project at a key moment of
its conception, and having given the suggestion to publish with the EPFL Press. We
also wish to thank our publisher Frederick Fenter from the EPFL Press, for his patience
and support.
We thank our translators from the Coup de Puce company in Toulouse, especially
Ian Margo and Gayle Trager Berthias, who spent a lot of time and extra-time in trans-
forming our ‘flowery’ French into straightforward English. Last but not least, we have
to thank an anonymous reviewer, who has greatly contributed to improve the quality
of this work.
Jean-Claude Souyris and Didier Massonnet
March 2008
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