SARIS: synthetic aperture radar instrument simulator

Author

Boerner, E. ; Uhlmann, F.H. ; Grafmueller, B. ; Zahn, R. ; Braumann, H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Inf. Technol., Ilmenau Univ. of Technol., Germany

Volume

4

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

1598

Abstract

An application specific synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instrument simulator (SARIS) is presented. SARIS is initiated by the technical and economical requirements to simplify the instrument hardware and to reduce by this way the cost. The simulators structure is based on a system-theoretical modeling of the processes within a SAR system and results in the modular description of components and subassemblies. Contrary to known simulators, with SARIS the influence of imperfect hardware behavior will be calculated by adding realistic error functions to every component of the instrument assembly. The developed simulation model is turned into a MATLAB code. First simulation results are presented and illustrated

Keywords

geophysical equipment; geophysical techniques; radar theory; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; MATLAB code; SAR; SARIS; Synthetic Aperture Radar Instrument Simulator; equipment; geophysical measurement technique; imperfect hardware; instrument; land surface; modular description; radar theory; simulation; synthetic aperture radar; system-theoretical modeling; terrain mapping; Instruments; Synthetic aperture radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7031-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2001.977005

Filename

977005