The imaging mode of forward looking SAR with two receiving antennas

Author

Dai, Shengli ; Wiesbeck, Werner

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Jinan Univ., Guangzhou, China

Volume

3

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

1776

Abstract

Compared to side looking synthetic aperture radar (SAR), forward looking SAR is known to have the disadvantage of the left/right ambiguity problem and the difficulty to achieve high angular resolution (azimuth resolution). This paper considers a radar platform with two or more receiving antennas and one transmitting antenna. In this operation mode, it will be seen that the left/right ambiguity problem can be solved in theory. High angular (azimuth) resolution can be achieved through a long illumination time. The imaging modes, azimuth resolution and the reference matching filter function are analyzed

Keywords

geophysical techniques; radar imaging; radar theory; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; SAR; azimuth resolution; configuration; forward looking SAR; geophysical measurement technique; high angular resolution; high resolution; land surface; left right ambiguity; long illumination time; radar imaging mode; radar remote sensing; radar theory; reference matching filter function; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; two receiving antennas; Azimuth; High-resolution imaging; Image resolution; Lighting; Matched filters; Radar antennas; Radar imaging; Receiving antennas; Synthetic aperture radar; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1999. IGARSS '99 Proceedings. IEEE 1999 International

Conference_Location

Hamburg

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5207-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1999.772092

Filename

772092