Surface Clutter Suppression Techniques for P-band Multichannel Synthetic Aperture Radar Ice Sounding

Konferenz: EUSAR 2012 - 9th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
23.04.2012 - 26.04.2012 in Nuremberg, Germany

Tagungsband: EUSAR 2012

Seiten: 4Sprache: EnglischTyp: PDF

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Autoren:
Bekaert, David; Gebert, Nicolas; Lin, Chung-Chi; Hélière, Florence (ESA ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands)
Dall, Jørgen; Kusk, Anders; Kristensen, Steen Savstrup (Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark)

Inhalt:
Radar ice sounding allows for the retrieval of ice depth and provides information on ice structures, flow, and layering. In the perspective of a future spaceborne ice sounding mission, surface clutter cancellation is a crucial aspect for extracting subsurface radar echoes. ESA’s P-band POLarimetric Airborne Radar Ice Sounder (POLARIS) enables simultaneous reception of up to 4 sub-apertures channels. Different surface clutter suppression techniques are presented, analysed and compared. Applicability and clutter rejection performance of the techniques is then demonstrated on a multi-channel dataset of the 2011 POLARIS Antarctica campaign.