TerraSAR-X TOPSAR and ScanSAR comparison

Konferenz: EUSAR 2008 - 7th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
02.06.2008 - 05.06.2008 in Friedrichshafen, Germany

Tagungsband: EUSAR 2008

Seiten: 4Sprache: EnglischTyp: PDF

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Autoren:
Meta, Adriano; Prats, Pau; Steinbrecher, Ulrich; Mittermayer, Josef; Scheiber, Rolf (German Aerospace Center, Microwave and Radar Institute, Germany)

Inhalt:
TOPSAR is a recently proposed SAR mode for wide swath acquisition, which is intended to replace the conventional ScanSAR mode. TOPSAR will be used by the ESA Sentinel-1 SAR sensor in its main interferometric wide swath mode. TerraSAR-X has demonstrated the TOPSAR mode in space by acquiring and processing TOPSAR images for the first time. The paper reports the results of the image scalloping analysis performed on TOPSAR, inverse TOPSAR and ScanSAR images.