access icon free Motion compensation of the transmitter and receiver in bistatic frequency-modulated continuous-wave synthetic aperture radar

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging with an independently moving transmitter and receiver introduces motion artefacts difficult to compensate for, especially between satellites in separate orbits that rendezvous over a target. A solution for polarisation-resolved bistatic frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) SAR with independently moving platforms is derived and demonstrated through simulation. This solution accounts for the polarisation of the source, susceptibility tensor of the target, and the velocity and acceleration of the transmitter and receiver. The accuracy of the solution is demonstrated by reconstructing simulated point ground targets with a pair of X-band SAR satellites of realistic parameters.

Inspec keywords: CW radar; remote sensing by radar; radar imaging; FM radar; image reconstruction; synthetic aperture radar; motion compensation

Other keywords: receiver; separate orbits that rendezvous; bistatic frequency-modulated continuous-wave synthetic aperture radar; band SAR satellites; independently moving transmitter; motion artefacts; polarisation-resolved bistatic frequency-modulated continuous-wave SAR; motion compensation

Subjects: Optical, image and video signal processing; Radar equipment, systems and applications; Data acquisition systems; Patient diagnostic methods and instrumentation

http://iet.metastore.ingenta.com/content/journals/10.1049/iet-rsn.2018.5051
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