Sensitivity of SAR Calibration to the Combined Effects of Cross- Talk, Channel Imbalance and Faraday Rotation
Conference: EUSAR 2006 - 6th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
05/16/2006 - 05/18/2006 at Dresden, Germany
Proceedings: EUSAR 2006
Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF
Personal VDE Members are entitled to a 10% discount on this title
Authors:
Macklin, Trevor; Wright, Patricia; Meadows, Peter (BAE SYSTEMS Advanced Technology Centre, UK)
Abstract:
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.