A multi-mode space-borne SAR simulator based on SBRAS

Author

Qi Chen ; Anxi Yu ; Zaoyu Sun ; Haifeng Huang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Sci. & Eng., Nat. Univ. of Defense Technol., Changsha, China

fYear

2012

fDate

22-27 July 2012

Firstpage

4567

Lastpage

4570

Abstract

A multi-mode space-borne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) simulator is presented in this paper. The simulator is based on the Space-borne Radar Advance Simulator (SBRAS), and supports the parameter design, raw data simulation, data focusing and performance evaluation of strip-map mode, spotlight mode, sliding spotlight mode, ScanSAR mode, Terrain Observation by Progressive Scans (TOPS) mode and mosaic mode. The hardware architecture and software composition are described below. At last, an application example of high resolution sliding spotlight with point targets and another application example of wide swath TOPS mode with distributed targets are provided.

Keywords

radar tracking; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; target tracking; SBRAS; data focusing; distributed targets; hardware architecture; high resolution sliding spotlight; multimode space-borne SAR simulator; parameter design; point targets; progressive scans; raw data simulation; sliding spotlight mode; software composition; space-borne radar advance simulator; strip-map mode; Computational modeling; Image resolution; Satellites; Software; Spaceborne radar; Synthetic aperture radar; Multi- mode; Simulator; Space-borne; Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR);

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.2012.6350453

Filename

6350453