Simulation of ionospheric effects on L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar images

Author

Gomba, Giorgio ; Eineder, Michael ; Fritz, Thomas ; Parizzi, Alessandro

Author_Institution

Remote Sensing Technol. Inst., German Aerosp. Center (DLR), Wessling, Germany

fYear

2013

fDate

21-26 July 2013

Firstpage

4463

Lastpage

4466

Abstract

A procedure to simulate the effects of the ionosphere on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images is presented. The propagation delay errors induced by the ionosphere have to be compensated to millimeter level in order to meet the scientific requirements for an L-band mission dedicated to deformation measurements, which are summarized in [1]. The simulator presented in this paper can be used to study the effects of an arbitrary ionospheric state on SAR images and to generate disrupted raw and focused images starting from ionospherefree real SAR images and use them to validate ionosphere estimation methods.

Keywords

deformation; geophysical techniques; ionospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; radar imaging; radiowave propagation; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; L-band mission; L-band synthetic aperture radar images; arbitrary ionospheric state; deformation measurements; disrupted raw images; focused images; ionosphere effect simulation; ionosphere estimation methods; ionosphere-free real SAR images; propagation delay errors; Abstracts; Ice; Ionosphere; Monitoring; Ionosphere; Ionospheric effects simulation; SAR Interferometry errors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2013 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Melbourne, VIC

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1114-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6723826

Filename

6723826