GMTI Performance Analysis for Circular Scanning SAR Equipped on Slow Platform

Author

Sun, Bing ; Zhou, Yinqing ; Chen, Jie

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Beijing Univ. of Aeronaut. & Astronaut., Beijing

Volume

3

fYear

2008

fDate

7-11 July 2008

Abstract

The GMTI (Ground Moving Target Indication) performance for circular scanning SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) equipped on slow platform was analyzed in this paper. The characteristics of SAR equipped on slow platform and the GMTI application were descript in the beginning, and the circular scanning mode was advanced to resolve the low azimuth imaging efficiency of the slow platform borne SAR. Then the range models of the stationary and moving targets based on circular scanning mode were built, and the Doppler frequency expressions were derived from the range models. The detectable velocities distribution areas were derived by separating the Doppler frequency of two kinds of targets. The quantitative computer simulations were given to demonstrate the detectable velocities area along with azimuth angle and pulse repetition frequency in the end.

Keywords

Doppler measurement; radar signal processing; synthetic aperture radar; target tracking; Doppler frequency; GMTI performance analysis; circular scanning SAR; ground moving target indication performance; synthetic aperture radar; Azimuth; Directive antennas; Frequency; Geometry; High-resolution imaging; Image resolution; Performance analysis; Phased arrays; Solid modeling; Synthetic aperture radar; GMTI; SAR; circular scanning; performance analysis; slow platform;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2807-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2808-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779571

Filename

4779571