A two-level simulator for spaceborne SAR

Author

Zhu, Chenhui ; Xiang, Zheng ; Wang, Kaizhi ; Liu, Xingzhao

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Shanghai Jiaotong Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2009

fDate

26-30 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

369

Lastpage

372

Abstract

A novel two-level simulator for spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is presented in this paper, and this simulator consists of two different simulation levels: the raw signal level and the image level and the implementations are discussed in detail. For the raw signal level, a new model with higher computation efficiency based on Graphic Processor Unit (GPU) to generate the radar echoes is proposed. For the image level, an efficient approach to create single-look image is processed. Finally some experimental results by the novel simulator are presented. These results demonstrate not only the validity of the proposed simulator but also the conformability of the two simulation levels.

Keywords

radar cross-sections; radar imaging; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; graphic processor unit; image level; radar echoes; raw signal level; single-look image; spaceborne SAR; spaceborne synthetic aperture radar; two-level simulator; Additive noise; Azimuth; Computational modeling; Directive antennas; Signal generators; Signal processing; Spaceborne radar; Speckle; Synthetic aperture radar; Transmitting antennas; GPU; Spaceborne SAR; raw signal; single-look image;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Synthetic Aperture Radar, 2009. APSAR 2009. 2nd Asian-Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Xian, Shanxi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2731-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2732-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APSAR.2009.5374339

Filename

5374339