Orbit Determination Error Analysis and Compensation for Multi-static GEO SAR Imaging

Yan Liu, Wentao Zhang, Zhiyang Chen*, Xichao Dong, Xiaotao Huang, Leping Chen

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The high orbit altitude of Geosynchronous Synthetic Aperture Radar (GEO SAR) introduces a significant challenge of long synthetic aperture times, which restricts the application of rapid imaging. A multi-static GEO SAR system consisting of multiple satellites flying along track can be employed to jointly image, and thus, to reduce the synthetic aperture time, but the orbit determination errors of different satellites will bring serious defocusing effect to the sub-image synthesis. In this paper, the effects of orbit determination errors on sub-image offset, defocusing and constant phase errors are analyzed in the multi-static GEO SAR system, and an orbit determination error correction method based on phase gradient autofocus (PGA) and interferometric phase estimation is proposed. Simulation results validate the effectiveness of the method.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)373-378
Number of pages6
JournalIET Conference Proceedings
Volume2023
Issue number47
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
EventIET International Radar Conference 2023, IRC 2023 - Chongqing, China
Duration: 3 Dec 20235 Dec 2023

Keywords

  • defocusing
  • multi-satellite joint imaging
  • orbit determination error
  • sub-image offset

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