Developed for the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, RPP will provide valuable information on Canada's agriculture, fishing, wildlife distribution, geology, and forestry. Researchers using the RPP save money because SAR satellite data is obtained at a fraction of the cost of aerial data collection missions. More Precision processing is what the RPP is all about.
Accurate analysis enhances the potential for reaping the most knowledge from data.
The RPP is a phase-preserving processor. 0.05dB within a scene and impulse response with broadening of less than three percent. These parameters apply for squint angles as wide as eight degrees. The RPP was developed on Sun and Silicon Graphics workstations, and is implemented on a 133 MHz SGI Indy, with 64 MB RAM and three GB of disk storage space. Initially, raw data is assessed for quality and converted to CEOS, HDF, or TIFF formats, according to users' requirements.