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Sampling Analysis and Processing Approach for Distributed SAR Constellations With Along-Track Baselines.

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Titel: Sampling Analysis and Processing Approach for Distributed SAR Constellations With Along-Track Baselines.
Autoren: Sakar, Nida1 nida.sakar@dlr.de, Rodriguez-Cassola, Marc1, Prats-Iraola, Pau1, Moreira, Alberto1
Quelle: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience & Remote Sensing. Apr2022, Vol. 60, p1-12. 12p.
Schlagwörter: *MONTE Carlo method, *DISTRIBUTED computing, *ARTIFICIAL satellites, SAMPLING (Process), SYNTHETIC aperture radar, ARTIFICIAL satellite tracking
Abstract: In the constant strive for improving the capacity of next-generation spaceborne SARs while containing the increase in system complexity, distributed along-track constellations operated below Nyquist appear as one of the most promising solutions for delivering metric resolution imagery over swaths of hundreds of kilometers. In the operation of multistatic SAR constellations, however, sampling singularities typically result in dramatic noise scaling and the impossibility to recover the entire Doppler bandwidth unambiguously. We investigate in this article the likelihood of these singularities in the case of along-track distributed constellations and justify the use of irregular sampling schemes to reduce the percentage of invalid samples of an acquisition. This article also presents a bistatic polychromatic reconstruction algorithm, which is used for the evaluation of the performance of along-track distributed constellations. With all these elements, the performance of along-track multistatic systems is assessed by means of a Monte Carlo analysis and conclusions on the scaling numbers of the constellations are drawn. Based on the performance investigations, an exemplary distributed L-band SAR constellation is proposed as a corollary of this article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Abstract:In the constant strive for improving the capacity of next-generation spaceborne SARs while containing the increase in system complexity, distributed along-track constellations operated below Nyquist appear as one of the most promising solutions for delivering metric resolution imagery over swaths of hundreds of kilometers. In the operation of multistatic SAR constellations, however, sampling singularities typically result in dramatic noise scaling and the impossibility to recover the entire Doppler bandwidth unambiguously. We investigate in this article the likelihood of these singularities in the case of along-track distributed constellations and justify the use of irregular sampling schemes to reduce the percentage of invalid samples of an acquisition. This article also presents a bistatic polychromatic reconstruction algorithm, which is used for the evaluation of the performance of along-track distributed constellations. With all these elements, the performance of along-track multistatic systems is assessed by means of a Monte Carlo analysis and conclusions on the scaling numbers of the constellations are drawn. Based on the performance investigations, an exemplary distributed L-band SAR constellation is proposed as a corollary of this article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ISSN:01962892
DOI:10.1109/TGRS.2022.3160874