A bistatic SAR interferometric simulator for fixed receiver configurations

Author

Duque, Sergi ; Lopez-Dekker, Paco ; Mallorqui, Jordi J. ; Martinez, Carlos Lopez

Author_Institution

Univ. Politenica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona

fYear

2007

fDate

23-28 July 2007

Firstpage

2130

Lastpage

2133

Abstract

Bistatic SAR systems are an emerging research field. In which context, the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya is developing a ground based bistatic system using ESAs ENVISAT and ERS-2 as transmitters. In this paper we characterize the bistatic interferometric phase and the different sources of decorrelation. We will also present a bistatic interferometric simulator which is able to generate realistic synthetic bistatic interferograms. The simulator is validated with real data obtained with our bistatic acquisition system, named SABRINA.

Keywords

data acquisition; radar interferometry; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; ERS-2; ESA ENVISAT; SABRINA; Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya; bistatic SAR interferometric simulator; bistatic acquisition system; fixed receiver configuration; ground based bistatic system; Decorrelation; Geometry; Interferometry; Laboratories; Master-slave; Receiving antennas; Remote sensing; Satellite antennas; Transmitters; Transmitting antennas; SAR; bistatic SAR; bistatic simulator; interferometry; sensor of opportunity;

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.2007.4423255

Filename

4423255