NDLI: Multichannel Azimuth Processing in ScanSAR and TOPS Mode Operation

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Gebert, N. Krieger, G. Moreira, A.
Copyright Year	1980
Abstract	Due to a system-inherent limitation, conventional synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is incapable of imaging a wide swath with high geometric resolution. This restriction can be overcome by systems with multiple receive channels in combination with an additional digital signal processing network. So far, the application of such digital beamforming algorithms for high-resolution wide-swath SAR imaging has been restricted to multichannel systems in stripmap operation. However, in stripmap mode, the overall azimuth antenna length restricts the achievable swath width, thus preventing very wide swaths as requested by future SAR missions. Consequently, new concepts for ultrawide-swath imaging are needed. A promising candidate is a SAR system with multiple azimuth channels being operated in burst mode. This paper analyzes innovative ScanSAR and Terrain Observation by Progressive Scans (TOPS) system concepts with regard to multichannel azimuth processing. For this, the theoretical analyses, performance figures, and SAR signal processing, which had previously been derived for multichannel stripmap mode, are extended to systems operating in burst modes. The investigations reveal that multichannel ScanSAR systems enable the imaging of ultrawide swaths with high azimuth resolution and compact antenna lengths. These considerations are embedded in a multichannel ScanSAR system design example to demonstrate its capability to image an ultrawide swath of 400 km with a high geometric resolution of 5 m. In a next step, this system is adapted to TOPS mode operation, including an innovative “staircase” multichannel processing approach optimized for TOPS.
Sponsorship	IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society IEEE URSI
Starting Page	2994
Ending Page	3008
Page Count	15
File Size	1566436
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01962892
Volume Number	48
Issue Number	7
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-07-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Azimuth High-resolution imaging Image resolution Signal resolution Synthetic aperture radar Digital signal processing Array signal processing Signal processing algorithms Radar polarimetry Signal analysis TOPS High-resolution ultrawide-swath synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging multichannel azimuth processing multichannel burst-mode operation ScanSAR
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Earth and Planetary Sciences Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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