[lindzey]

Yes - this idea has definitely taken over my imagination. A different research group (https://www.cresis.ku.edu/) has been working on this, but the processing techniques are still evolving.

Do you have papers describing y'all's processing? I'd love to learn more!

[b_emery]

I do have papers. I recently wrote a paper where we used backscatter from container ships to calibrate our radars. I'll try to email it to you, but here it is:

http://euler.msi.ucsb.edu/papers/2014_emery_apm_from_soo.pdf

It has some of the basic processing techniques.

[hn9780470248775]

I think "phased array radar" is the relevant search term.