High resolution SAR imaging along circular trajectories

Author

Cantalloube, Hubert M J ; Colin-Koeniguer, Elise ; Oriot, Hélène

Author_Institution

Office Nat. d´´Etudes et Recherche Aerospatiales, Palaiseau

fYear

2007

fDate

23-28 July 2007

Firstpage

850

Lastpage

853

Abstract

After a first series of full circle SAR acquisitions in L and P-bands during a 2004 joint FOI-ONERA campaign in Sweden, ONERA experimented in 2006 high resolution (15 cm) polarimetric, full circle acquisitions in France and Germany using its X-band sensor. In order to cope with narrower antenna pattern and aircraft attitude fluctuations, a steerable antenna was used. Furthermore, an experimental setup for retrieving high accuracy trajectory was installed. This paper describes the processing of this signals.

Keywords

data acquisition; motion compensation; radar antennas; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; L-band radar; P-band radar; Sweden; X-band sensor; aircraft attitude fluctuation; circular trajectories; high resolution SAR imaging; joint FOI-ONERA campaign; narrower antenna pattern; polarimetric full circle radar acquisition; steerable antenna; Aerospace testing; Aircraft; Fluctuations; Global Positioning System; Image resolution; Lighting; Radar imaging; Radar polarimetry; Signal resolution; Synthetic aperture radar; SAR image synthesis; autofocus; motioncompensation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2007. IGARSS 2007. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1211-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1212-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4422930

Filename

4422930