Computational synthetic aperture radar (cSAR): a flexible signal simulator for multichannel SAR systems

被引：10

作者：

Allan, Jeremy M. ^{[2
]}

Collins, Michael J. ^{[1
]}

Gierull, Christoph ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Calgary, Dept Geomat Engn, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada

[2] Sky Res Inc, Palo Alto, CA 94303 USA

[3] Def Res & Dev Canada, Ottawa, ON K1A 0Z4, Canada

来源：

CANADIAN JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING | 2010年 / 36卷 / 04期

基金：

加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;

关键词：

PARAMETER-ESTIMATION; POLARIMETRIC SAR; SCATTERING; STATISTICS; MODEL;

D O I：

10.5589/m10-048

中图分类号：

TP7 [遥感技术];

学科分类号：

081102 ; 0816 ; 081602 ; 083002 ; 1404 ;

摘要：

This paper presents an overview of the theory and capabilities of computational synthetic aperture radar (cSAR), a time-domain SAR system simulator. cSAR offers a robust design of the SAR system and the scene to be imaged, including arbitrary trajectories for both the SAR platform and moving targets, flexible antenna configuration and characterization, and user-specified probability density functions and correlation characteristics of the scene's underlying scatterers. A number of system, clutter, and target scenarios are simulated with cSAR and presented in this paper. In particular, two airborne SAR systems are simulated, namely the Convair-580 system and the Intermap Technologies Inc. STAR-3i, and the simulated system characteristics are demonstrated to be consistent with theory. A wide variety of clutter characteristics are simulated and shown to be consistent with the K distribution model. Additionally, several targets moving at different speeds and directions in a range of clutter fields are simulated, and the results show that the characteristics of the simulated moving targets are consistent with real data.

引用

页码：345 / 360

页数：16

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