Sensitivity of SAR Calibration to the Combined Effects of Cross- Talk, Channel Imbalance and Faraday Rotation

Konferenz: EUSAR 2006 - 6th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
16.05.2006 - 18.05.2006 in Dresden, Germany

Tagungsband: EUSAR 2006

Seiten: 4Sprache: EnglischTyp: PDF

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Autoren:
Macklin, Trevor; Wright, Patricia; Meadows, Peter (BAE SYSTEMS Advanced Technology Centre, UK)

Inhalt:
We assess the Faraday rotation which may be tolerated in spaceborne synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) when residual cross-talk and channel imbalance are present. Results are obtained via purely theoretical analysis, numerical calculations for different scatterer types, and assessment of airborne-SAR data corrupted by introducing Faraday rotation, cross-talk and channel imbalance. Implications for future spaceborne missions at 1 – 2 GHz are discussed.