Title :
Synthetic aperture processing for full-deramp radar altimeters
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll., London
fDate :
3/31/1988 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
It is shown how the technique of aperture synthesis may be used to provide high spatial resolution for satellite-borne geophysical radar altimeters. Unfocused synthetic aperture processing is appropriate, since this provides adequate resolution and allows simple processing. It is also shown how this is compatible with the full-deramp pulse compression technique
Keywords :
geophysical equipment; radar equipment; radar theory; radioaltimeters; remote sensing; signal processing; SAR; full-deramp pulse compression technique; full-deramp radar altimeters; geophysical altimeters; high spatial resolution; satellite borne radar altimeters; satellite-borne geophysical radar altimeters; simple processing; synthetic aperture processing; synthetic aperture radar; technique of aperture synthesis;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
