Analysis of PRF Jitter in Bistatic SAR

Author

Wu, Junjie ; Xiong, Jintao ; Huang, Yulin ; Yang, Jianyu

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Eng., Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu

fYear

2006

fDate

16-19 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, pulse repetition frequency (PRF) jitter in bistatic synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is analyzed. The PRF jitter error in bistatic SAR is presented from a physical point of view and a mathematical model for this error is introduced. It is shown that the PRF jitter error deteriorates the performance of bistatic SAR imaging on azimuth, for it corrupts the phase coherence between echo signals. The limitation of the PRF jitter´s root-mean-square (RMS) is deduced under some certain conditions. Finally, using the conversion of PRF jitter and phase noise, proper oscillators could be chosen to satisfy the imaging request

Keywords

echo; jitter; phase noise; radar imaging; synthetic aperture radar; PRF jitter; RMS; bistatic SAR imaging; echo signals; phase coherence; phase noise; pulse repetition frequency; root-mean-square; synthetic aperture radar; Azimuth; Clocks; Frequency synchronization; Gaussian distribution; Jitter; Mathematical model; Oscillators; Radar polarimetry; Synthetic aperture radar; Transmitters; PRF jitter; bistatic SAR; time synchronization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar, 2006. CIE '06. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9582-4

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-9583-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICR.2006.343165

Filename

4148271