Chapter 1. The physical basis of synthetic aperture radar imagery (Jean-Marie Nicolas and Sylvie Le Hégarat-Mascle). Chapter 2. The principles of synthetic aperture radar (Jean-Marie Nicolas and Frédéric Adragna). Chapter 3. Existing satellite SAR systems (Jean-Marie Nicolas and Frédéric Adragna). Chapter 4. Synthetic aperture radar images (Frédéric Adragna, Sylvie Le Hégarat-Mascle and Jean-Marie Nicolas).
Chapter 5. Speckle models (Armand Lopès, René Garello and Sylvie Le Hégarat-Mascle). Chapter 6. Estimation of reflectivity and filtering of SAR images (Armand Lopès, Florence Tupin and Sylvie Le Hégarat-Mascle). Chapter 7. Classification of SAR images (Danielle Ducrot, Florence Tupin and Sylvie Le Hégarat-Mascle). Chapter 8. Detection of points, contours and lines (Florence Tupin and Armand Lopès).
Chapter 9. Geometry and relief (Frédéric Adragna). Chapter 10. Radar-grammetry (Henri Maître). Chapter 11. Radar-clinometry (Henri Maître). Chapter 12. Interferometry (Frédéric Adragna and Jean-Marie Nicolas).
Chapter 13. Phase unwrapping (Emmanuel Trouvé and Henri Maître). Chapter 14. Radar oceanography (Jean-Marc Le Caillec and René Garello).