SETHI: The Flying Lab

Abstract

SETHI: The Flying Lab This paper presents the new-generation test bench SETHI, developed by ONERA, the French Aerospace Lab. SETHI is a medium range platform dedicated to environmental, scientific and security applications. The first part of this paper describes the system architecture, the development state and the future capabilities. A set of recent significant results are presented: these results cover various applications, such as high spatial resolution imaging, change detection between two acquisitions, biomass measurement in the rain forest, bistatic imaging and innovative measurements, such as air-to-air imaging or circular imaging.