Synchronization techniques for the bistatic spaceborne/airborne SAR experiment with TerraSAR-X and PAMIR

Author

Espeter, Thomas ; Walterscheid, Ingo ; Klare, Jens ; Ender, Joachim H G

Author_Institution

FGAN-FHR, Wachtberg

fYear

2007

fDate

23-28 July 2007

Firstpage

2160

Lastpage

2163

Abstract

The separation of transmitter and receiver makes bistatic SAR (synthetic aperture radar) systems preferable to conventional monostatic systems in several applications. However, this separation also leads to difficulties in image processing and in synchronization of the involved systems. For the upcoming hybrid bistatic SAR experiment with the TerraSAR-X satellite as transmitter and the airborne SAR/GMTI system PAMIR as receiver the synchronization issues are discussed in this paper and possible solutions are presented.

Keywords

airborne radar; geophysical equipment; radar signal processing; receivers; spaceborne radar; synchronisation; synthetic aperture radar; transmitters; SAR synchronization technique; SAR-GMTI PAMIR receiver; TerraSAR-X satellite transmitter; bistatic spaceborne-airborne SAR; synthetic aperture radar; transmitter-receiver separation; Aircraft navigation; Beam steering; Frequency synchronization; Layout; Phased arrays; Satellite navigation systems; Sensor arrays; Spaceborne radar; Synthetic aperture radar; Transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2007. IGARSS 2007. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1211-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1212-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423262

Filename

4423262