Low frequency bistatic SAR measurements

Author

Gustavsson, Anders ; Ulander, Lars M H ; Flood, Björn ; Frölind, Per-Olov ; Jonsson, Tommy ; Larsson, Björn ; Murdin, Daniel ; Ragnarsson, Rolf ; Rasmusson, Johan ; Stenström, Gunnar

Author_Institution

Swedish Defence Res. Agency (FOI), Linkoping, Sweden

fYear

2012

fDate

22-27 July 2012

Firstpage

315

Lastpage

318

Abstract

Airborne bistatic SAR data have been collected at VHF- and UHF-band to investigate clutter suppression in forested and urban areas. The synchronization between the SAR systems is accomplished using the 1-PPS signal provided by the GPS system. The same signal is also used as input to a disciplined 10 MHz master oscillator integrated in both radar systems to maintain sufficient phase stability. Images have successfully been generated using the time domain fast factorized backprojection algorithm, modified for the bistatic case. Clutter suppression has been observed when comparing the monostatic and bistatic images acquired simultaneously by the two SAR sensors. Work is in progress to quantify and compare the obtained results.

Keywords

UHF oscillators; VHF oscillators; radar clutter; radar imaging; synchronisation; synthetic aperture radar; 1-PPS signal; Clutter suppression; GPS system; SAR sensors; UHF-band; VHF-band; airborne bistatic SAR data; frequency 10 MHz; low frequency bistatic SAR measurement; master oscillator; radar systems; sufficient phase stability; synchronization; time domain fast factorized backprojection algorithm; Clutter; Radar imaging; Receivers; Synchronization; Synthetic aperture radar; Vehicles; Bistatic SAR; UHF; VHF; clutter suppression; synchronization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1160-1

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6351574

Filename

6351574