Talk:Interferometric synthetic-aperture radar

I've just started a draft attempt to expand InSAR from a stub into a proper article. I'm only playing with structures and ideas at the moment, so I'm doing it in my sandbox out of everyone's way. If anyone else is already working on something similar, please give me a shout and we can combine them. I'll update the page properly once I've got something that doesn't look a half-completed mess, so everyone can start working on it. In the meantime please do leave me comments and feedback (especially on the suggested structure) on my talk page.

Cheers, Eve 15:40, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Its now vaguely assembled together as an article, so I've posted it here now. It isn't by any means finished, it needs some additions and a lot of polish. But I think its reached the stage where it makes enough sense as it stands for people who happen upon it not to get completely confused, and where more input from other editors is needed. In particular lots and lots of feedback. I've put my to-do list for the article below, feel free to add things, do things on it, take things off it etc. as you think necessary (or ignore it completely if you prefer). But I'm also after more holistic comments and edits too, as well as nitpicks and formatting - is it too long? Are any sections confusing? Have I pitched the level of detail right or is it too academic? Eve 17:56, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Feel free to do things (and remove them from the list), add things you'd like me to do etc.

• Look at which sections need more references
• Put more in Data Sources section about Airborne (I don't know much about this)
• Add more detail to the PS section
• More about topo applications?
• Standardise formatting of references, and check against guidelines
• Find more introductory-level items for Further Reading
• Find some pictures

This isn't a bad article, but it has some problems that keep it from GA:

1. The lead is not intelligible to the layman. The topic itself is a difficult term, so a clear, low-jargon explanation is needed in order to make it accessible. The current explanation fails to explain.

1. Severe lack of references in the first half or so. Inconsistent referencing after that, using both links and >ref< tags.

Between the extreme difficulty and lack of referencing, this just isn't yet at GA level. I think it can be made so without too much effort - but isn't yet. Sorry.

Adam Cuerden ^talk 12:32, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

:Ok, thanks for the feedback, and for the very quick reply. I'll have a go at the intro, and try and make it simpler. With regards to the references, I was trying to follow the scientific citation guidelines, in particular the section on uncontroversial knowledge, but I guess maybe that was designed for shorter articles. The problem is, that the material the seemingly unreferenced sections is general knowledge about the subject, rather than coming from one particular source. It is all covered by the three refs cited in the lead (so it's clearly not OR), but I'm not sure how to reference it all, other than citing the same three or four references repeatedly, or searching for more obscure sources covering the same things to add an illusion of variety... As far as I can see, the only places links are used instead of ref tags are for the software sites, but I guess these should really be at the end as external links. I'll have a look at it. Thanks again for the useful feedback! Eve 20:30, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

::I think the general suggestion is to just put one ref at the end of uncontroversial paragraphs that covers all the information, if that helps. Use the same ref(s) if it covers the information. Adam Cuerden ^talk 01:35, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

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