Dual-Mode Interferometric Experiment Using Ka DBF-SAR

Wang, Hui; Wu, Sili; Zheng, Shichao

doi:10.23919/ciss51089.2021.9652204

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“…Beamforming technology has been used in the field of nonimaging radar for a long time and can greatly improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the system and the corresponding accuracy [4], [5], [6]. Swath and high resolution are a pair of contradictory quantities.…”

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A New Method of Ka DBF ATI-SAR for Full Ocean Current Vectors Inversion

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Zhao

et al. 2022

IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Observations Remote Sensing

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For applications such as high-precision current velocity field monitoring, Ka-band SAR has an important advantage in baseline configuration, which can be configured with dual antennas or more effective phase centers for a single satellite, forming omnidirectional current field measurement capabilities. However, the normalized radar cross section of the sea surface will decay rapidly with the larger incident angle, and it is difficult to obtain a high echo signal-to-noise ratio by active radiating method. Considering that the digital beamforming (DBF) scan on receive at a small incident angle will cause gain loss and phase error due to echo pulse extension and reduce the interferometric accuracy, this article proposes a dual-beam along-track interferometry (ATI) implementation architecture combined with pulse compression and channel forming, which has the advantages of bidirectional current velocity measurement capacity and compact hardware structure. Under a set of parameters, verified by simulation, it could be demonstrated that the proposed method has good robustness, can extract the velocity of the wide-swath current, and complete the extraction of the nongeotropic components. Moreover, the concept of DBF ATI-SAR was validated with airborne data.

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