Fast Simulation Performance Evaluation of Spaceborne SAR-GMTI Missions for Maritime Applications

Conference: EUSAR 2014 - 10th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
06/03/2014 - 06/05/2014 at Berlin, Germany

Proceedings: EUSAR 2014

Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Makhoul, Eduardo; Zhan, Yu; Ceba, Francisco; Broquetas, Antoni (Theory Signal and Communications Department (TSC), Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain)
Beaton, Alasdhair (Telespazio VEGA UK Ltd, UK)
Letterio, Federico; Tonetti, Stefania (DEIMOS Space, Spain)
Barbarossa, Sergio; Lorenzo, Paolo Di (DIET, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Maffei, Marco (Thales Alenia Space, Italy)

Abstract:
This paper presents a flexible simulator for Ground Moving Target Indication (GMTI) in the frame of spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) over maritime scenarios. The simulation tool provides GMTI performance metric in terms of probability of detection, extracted from an off-line database generated through intensive Monte Carlo (MC) simulations, overlaid on top of synthetic SAR-GMTI processed images. Different system configurations have been evaluated considering Along-Track Interferometry (ATI), Displaced Phase Center Antenna (DPCA) and Extended DPCA (EDPCA) GMTI techniques.