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Performance of spaceborne bistatic synthetic aperture radar
- Source :
- IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. 41:1383-1395
- Publication Year :
- 2005
- Publisher :
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2005.
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Abstract
- This paper reports on a model developed for evaluating major system performance of a spaceborne bistatic synthetic aperture radar (SAR) for remote sensing applications. The procedure accounts for formation flying aspects. It is particularly aimed at comparison of monostatic and bistatic cases, and, as a test case, it is applied to study a novel configuration, based on a small satellite equipped with a receiving-only antenna orbiting in tandem with a large, noncooperative transmitting spacecraft, the Italian COSMO-SkyMed mission. Numerical results and plots show the effectiveness of the procedure as a mission design tool and put in evidence key issues and characteristics of the proposed spaceborne bistatic formation.
- Subjects :
- Synthetic aperture radar
Early-warning radar
Computer science
formation flying
Aerospace Engineering
Fire-control radar
Space-based radar
Passive radar
law.invention
Radar engineering details
law
Radar imaging
Interferometric synthetic aperture radar
bistatic SAR
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Radar
mission design
Radar MASINT
Remote sensing
microwave remote sensing
Pulse-Doppler radar
Side looking airborne radar
spaceborne remote sensing
Radar lock-on
Continuous-wave radar
Inverse synthetic aperture radar
Man-portable radar
Bistatic radar
Orbit
3D radar
Radar configurations and types
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00189251
- Volume :
- 41
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....212ece4c0b873a211a756a1ea93c92c3