An experiment of Ku-band air-borne bistatic SAR with a stationary receiver

Author

Yamamoto, Koji ; Suwa, Kei ; Tsuchida, Masahiro ; Yamaoka, Tomoya ; Endo, Junpei ; Hayashi, K. ; Hasegawa, Hiroshi ; Wakayama, Toshio

Author_Institution

Inf. Technol. R&D Center, Mitsubishi Electr. Corp., Kamakura, Japan

fYear

2013

fDate

23-27 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

156

Lastpage

159

Abstract

In recent years, the interest in bistatic SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) has rapidly increased. In this paper, experiment results of Ku-band air-borne bistatic SAR with a stationary receiver are shown. Reconstructed bistatic SAR image is well focused enough to extract shape information about the observed area. Range and cross range resolution of the bistatic SAR image are evaluated as 0.61[m] and 0.16[m], respectively. From the comparison with the monostatic SAR image which is observed simultaneously it was confirmed that bistatic SAR was useful for (a)reduction the strong scatterers which sometimes disturb the observation of weak scatters, (b)extraction of different shape information from the conventional monostatic SAR.

Keywords

radar imaging; radar receivers; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; Ku-band air-borne bistatic SAR experiment; conventional monostatic SAR; monostatic SAR image; reconstructed bistatic SAR image; shape information; stationary receiver; synthetic aperture radar; Bridges; Image resolution; Radar imaging; Radar polarimetry; Receivers; Synthetic aperture radar; Transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Synthetic Aperture Radar (APSAR), 2013 Asia-Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Tsukuba

Type

conf

Filename

6705036