GPS/INS Integration for Footprint Chasing in Bistatic SAR Experiments

Author

Knedlik, Stefan ; Edwan, Ezzaldeen ; Zhou, Junchuan ; Dai, Zhen ; Ubolkosold, Pakorn ; Loffeld, Otmar

Author_Institution

Center for Sensorsystems (ZESS), Univ. of Siegen, Siegen

Volume

3

fYear

2008

fDate

7-11 July 2008

Abstract

The paper starts with a brief consideration of a novel bistatic SAR experiment and the requirements on attitude and position determination in SAR. GPS/INS integration strategies are summarized. To obtain an affordable system for the antenna pointing for footprint chasing, low-cost inertial measurement units are in the focus. By an observability analysis it is proven that additional redundant attitude information as it can be derived from a multi-antenna GPS receiver can remarkably aid the integration.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; attitude measurement; inertial navigation; position measurement; radar antennas; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; GPS/INS integration; antenna pointing; attitude determination; bistatic SAR experiment; footprint chasing; low-cost inertial measurement units; multiantenna GPS receiver; observability analysis; position determination; Extraterrestrial measurements; Filters; Global Positioning System; Measurement units; Navigation; Phase measurement; Position measurement; Receiving antennas; Satellites; Transmitting antennas; GPS; INS; SAR; antenna pointing; footprint;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2807-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2808-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779383

Filename

4779383