Performance of spaceborne bistatic synthetic aperture radar |
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Authors: | Moccia A Salzillo G D'Errico M Rufino G Alberti G |
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Institution: | Dip. Scienza e Ingegneria dello Spazio "Luigi G. Napolitano", Universita degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", Italy; |
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Abstract: | This paper reports on a model developed for evaluating major system performance of a spaceborne bistatic synthetic aperture radar (SAR) for remote sensing applications. The procedure accounts for formation flying aspects. It is particularly aimed at comparison of monostatic and bistatic cases, and, as a test case, it is applied to study a novel configuration, based on a small satellite equipped with a receiving-only antenna orbiting in tandem with a large, noncooperative transmitting spacecraft, the Italian COSMO-SkyMed mission. Numerical results and plots show the effectiveness of the procedure as a mission design tool and put in evidence key issues and characteristics of the proposed spaceborne bistatic formation. |
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