Analysis of system concepts for bi- and multi-static SAR missions

Author

Krieger, Gerhard ; Fiedler, Hauke ; Houman, D. ; Moreira, Alberto

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Hochfrequenztechnik und Radarsysteme, Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft und Raumfahrt, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

21-25 July 2003

Firstpage

770

Abstract

The performance and capabilities of a bistatic spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) are analyzed, where the transmitter and receiver are in different orbits. Such a configuration may be optimized for a broad range of applications like frequent monitoring, wide swath imaging, single-pass cross-track interferometry, along-track interferometry, resolution enhancement or radar tomography.

Keywords

optimisation; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; along-track interferometry; bistatic SAR missions; bistatic spaceborne SAR; configuration optimization; monitoring; multistatic SAR missions; radar tomography; receiver; resolution enhancement; single-pass cross-track interferometry; synthetic aperture radar; system analysis; transmitter; wide swath imaging; Image resolution; Interferometry; Monitoring; Orbits; Performance analysis; Radar applications; Radar imaging; Spaceborne radar; Synthetic aperture radar; Transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2003. IGARSS '03. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7929-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2003.1293912

Filename

1293912