Efficient Stripmap SAR Raw Data Generation Taking Into Account Sensor Trajectory Deviations

Author

Khwaja, A.S. ; Ferro-Famil, L. ; Pottier, E.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electron. & Telecommun. of Rennes, Univ. of Rennes 1, Rennes, France

Volume

8

Issue

4

fYear

2011

fDate

7/1/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

794

Lastpage

798

Abstract

In this letter, a simulation procedure for airborne stripmap synthetic aperture radar with zero squint angle is proposed. The procedure is based on the idea of inverse processing and 1-D summation. It utilizes narrow bandwidth approximation and is more efficient compared to a time-domain simulator. Moreover, it allows for the simulation of raw data for higher aperture angle configurations compared to existing approaches. The effectiveness of the approach is demonstrated by means of examples for point scatterers.

Keywords

synthetic aperture radar; 1D summation; SAR raw data simulation; airborne stripmap synthetic aperture radar; broadside geometry; high aperture angle configurations; inverse processing; narrow bandwidth approximation; point scatterers; sensor trajectory deviations; squint angle; stripmap SAR raw data generation; time-domain simulator; Apertures; Approximation methods; Azimuth; Computational modeling; Data models; Mathematical model; Synthetic aperture radar; Airborne stripmap synthetic aperture radar (SAR); SAR raw data simulation; broadside geometry; inverse processing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1545-598X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LGRS.2011.2111411

Filename

5733363