Design of general purpose simulation package of SAR system

Author

Song, H.J. ; Zhu, M.H. ; Bai, Y.T.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electron., Acad. Sinica, China

fYear

1997

fDate

14-16 Oct 1997

Firstpage

697

Lastpage

699

Abstract

The SAR (synthetic aperture radar) system simulation is a useful tool for the design of an SAR system. It can predict the system performance before the SAR is realized. We present the design concept of a general purpose SAR simulation package, which can deal with both the airborne and spaceborne SARs, and also the multi-polarization, multi-frequency and interferometric SARs. This software package must be modular so that the different models can be selected for each subsystem. It consists of three parts. The first one is design entry for the model creation and representation. The second part is a simulation controller which selects the different models of the SAR subsystems, and generates the SAR raw data. The third part is the data processing and analysis tools which consists of a general SAR processor, waveform analysis tools and image analysis tools

Keywords

synthetic aperture radar; SAR processor; SAR raw data generation; SAR subsystems; SAR system; airborne SAR; data analysis tools; data processing tools; design entry; general purpose SAR simulation package; general purpose simulation package design; image analysis tools; interferometric SAR; model creation; model representation; modular software package; multifrequency SAR; multipolarization SAR; simulation controller; spaceborne SAR; synthetic aperture radar; system performance; system simulation; waveform analysis tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Radar 97 (Conf. Publ. No. 449)

Conference_Location

Edinburgh

ISSN

0537-9989

Print_ISBN

0-85296-698-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1049/cp:19971765

Filename

629270