Development and experiments of a passive SAR receiver system in a bistatic spaceborne/stationary configuration

Author

Reuter, Simon ; Behner, Florian ; Nies, Holger ; Loffeld, Otmar ; Matthes, Dietmar ; Schiller, Joachim

Author_Institution

Center for Sensorsystems (ZESS), Siegen, Germany

fYear

2010

fDate

25-30 July 2010

Firstpage

118

Lastpage

121

Abstract

In this paper, the development of a stationary SAR receiver system using TerraSAR-X as transmitter is described. First the bistatic geometry and expected resolution are considered. After giving an overview of the hardware setup, the expected performance of the system is evaluated. The paper ends with the processed results of a measurement campaign performed in summer and fall 2009, and a comparison with the monostatic data acquired by the TerraSAR-X satellite.

Keywords

passive radar; radar receivers; radar resolution; radar transmitters; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; TerraSAR-X satellite; bistatic geometry; bistatic spaceborne/stationary configuration; monostatic data; passive SAR receiver system; stationary SAR receiver system; transmitter; Bandwidth; Geometry; Image resolution; Receivers; Satellites; Signal resolution; Transmitters; HITCHHIKER; SAR; TerraSAR-X; X-band; bistatic; hybrid; receiver; stationary; system development;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9565-8

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5653797

Filename

5653797