Analysis of a Bistatic Ground-Based Synthetic Aperture Radar System and Indoor Experiments

Remote Sensing

Jihyun Moon¹  Hoonyol Lee¹ 

[1] Department of Geophysics, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Kangwon-do 24341, Korea;

关键词: bistatic;    GB-SAR;    Ku-band;    back-projection algorithm;    range-Doppler algorithm;   

DOI  :  10.3390/rs13010063

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Recent advancement of satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR) techniques require more sophisticated system configurations such as the use of bistatic antennas or multi-frequencies. A ground-based experiment is a cost-effective and efficient way to evaluate those new configurations especially in the early stage of the system development. In this paper, a ground-based synthetic aperture radar (GB-SAR) system was constructed and operated in a bistatic mode at Ku-band where a receiving antenna (Rx) follows a transmitting antenna (Tx) separated by a baseline B. A new bistatic GB-SAR focusing algorithm was developed by modifying a conventional range-Doppler algorithm (RDA), and its performance has been evaluated by comparing the results with those from a back-projection algorithm (BPA). The results showed good performance of RDA at far range approaching nominal resolutions of 9.4 cm in range and 4.5 cm in azimuth, but limited quality at near range due to the approximation used in RDA. Signals from three trihedral corner reflectors (CR) reduced with increasing B, showing a typical bidirectional scattering behavior of CR. This GB-SAR system will be a testbed for new SAR imaging configurations with variations in antenna positions and target properties.

【 授权许可】

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