Comparison of topography- and aperture-dependent motion compensation algorithms for airborne SAR
This letter presents a comparison between three Fourier-based motion compensation (MoCo) algorithms for airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems. These algorithms circumvent the limitations of conventional MoCo, namely the assumption of a reference height and the beam-center approximation. Al...
| Autores: | , , , , |
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2007 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Repositorio: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/13291 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://hdl.handle.net/2117/13291 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Calibration Image stabilization Interferometry Synthetic aperture radar Signal theory (Telecommunication) Radar Senyal, Teoria del (Telecomunicació) |
| Resumo: | This letter presents a comparison between three Fourier-based motion compensation (MoCo) algorithms for airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems. These algorithms circumvent the limitations of conventional MoCo, namely the assumption of a reference height and the beam-center approximation. All these approaches rely on the inherent time–frequency relation in SAR systems but exploit it differently, with the consequent differences in accuracy and computational burden. After a brief overview of the three approaches, the performance of each algorithm is analyzed with respect to azimuthal topography accommodation, angle accommodation, and maximum frequency of track deviations with which the algorithm can cope. Also, an analysis on the computational complexity is presented. Quantitative results are shown using real data acquired by the Experimental SAR system of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). |
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