Atmospheric Phase Screen in GEO-SAR: Estimation and Compensation

作者：Guarnieri Andrea Monti^*; Leanza Antonio; Recchia Andrea; Tebaldini Stefano; Venuti Giovanna

来源：IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2018, 56(3): 1668-1679.

DOI：10.1109/TGRS.2017.2766084

• Meteorology
• radar clutter
• radar imaging
• radar interferometry
• synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

We study the impact of atmospheric turbulence, specifically the wet tropospheric delay, in that synthetic aperture radar (SAR) with very long integration time, from minutes to hours, and wide swaths, such as the geosynchronous or geostationary SAR. In such systems, the atmospheric phase screen (APS) cannot be assumed frozen in time as for Low Earth Orbit or airborne SARs nor constant in space as for the ground-based SAR. The impact of space-time turbulence on SAR focusing is quantitatively assessed, and a novel focusing method that integrates APS estimation and compensation is proposed. Performances are evaluated as a function of SAR parameters, mainly the wavelength, based on a parametric model of the APS variogram, and results achieved by a simulating realistic scenario are shown.

• 出版日期2018-3