Optimal geometry configuration of bistatic forward-looking SAR

Author

Wu, Junjie ; Yang, Jianyu ; Yang, Haiguang ; Huang, Yulin

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Eng., Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Sichuan

fYear

2009

fDate

19-24 April 2009

Firstpage

1117

Lastpage

1120

Abstract

With appropriate geometry configurations, bistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) can break through the limitations of monostatic SAR on forward-looking imaging. With such a capability, bistatic forward-looking SAR (BFSAR) has extensive potential applications. In this paper, based on the resolution calculation using gradient theory, we give a general rule to determine the optimal geometry configuration of different modes of BFSAR. The results can be used to design BFSAR flight campaign and measure the performance of a specific BFSAR system.

Keywords

geometry; gradient methods; radar imaging; synthetic aperture radar; bistatic forward-looking SAR; bistatic synthetic aperture radar; forward-looking imaging; geometry configurations; gradient theory; monostatic SAR; optimal geometry configuration; resolution calculation; Azimuth; Geometry; High-resolution imaging; Image resolution; Radar polarimetry; Roentgenium; Signal resolution; Spatial resolution; Synthetic aperture radar; Transmitters; Bistatic SAR; forward-looking; resolution; synthetic aperture radar(SAR);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2009. ICASSP 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Taipei

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2353-8

Electronic_ISBN

1520-6149

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4959784

Filename

4959784