The knowledge and skills communicated in the course are covering a broad spectrum of SAR Principles and Application: Introduction to the principle of synthetic aperture radar; system design; introduction to signal processing for synthetic aperture radars, basics and advanced algorithms; overview of polarimetric and interferometric concepts and data analysis; calibration and image quality considerations; geocoding of SAR imagery; differential SAR interferometry and permanent scatterers; SAR applications in forest, agriculture, snow, land ice, coastal and marine environments; status and design of TanDEM-X; overview of bi-static SAR systems; introduction to the DLR airborne SAR facility.