• DocumentCode
    3136491
  • Title

    Verification of the Total Zero Doppler Steering

  • Author

    Fiedler, Hauke ; Fritz, Thomas ; Kahle, Ralph

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Radio Freq. & Radar Syst., DLR-Oberpfaffenhofen, Wessling
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    2-5 Sept. 2008
  • Firstpage
    340
  • Lastpage
    342
  • Abstract
    In 2004, the total zero Doppler steering was proposed to minimize the Doppler centroid for SAR applications. It was firstly implemented in the German TerraSAR-X satellite. This satellite was launched May 2007. With the already analysed data, it is now possible to compare the predictions with the already taken data from the commissioning phase. It is shown that after an additional offset in the attitude control system of the satellite, the remaining Doppler centroid is well below 100 Hz as predicted.
  • Keywords
    Doppler radar; artificial satellites; attitude control; spaceborne radar; Doppler centroid; German TerraSAR-X satellite; attitude control system; total zero Doppler steering; Azimuth; Baseband; Calibration; Doppler radar; Radar applications; Radio frequency; Satellite broadcasting; Space technology; Spaceborne radar; Synthetic aperture radar;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Radar, 2008 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Adelaide, SA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2321-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2322-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/RADAR.2008.4653943
  • Filename
    4653943