In the distributed synthetic aperture radar （SAR）, the alternating bistatic mode can perform phase reference without a synchronization link between two satellites compared with the pulsed alternate synchronization m...In the distributed synthetic aperture radar （SAR）, the alternating bistatic mode can perform phase reference without a synchronization link between two satellites compared with the pulsed alternate synchronization method. The key of the phase synchronization processing is to extract the oscillator phase differences from the bistatic echoes. A signal model of phase synchronization in the alternating bistatic mode is presented. The phase synchronization processing method is then studied. To reduce the phase errors introduced by SAR imaging, a sub-aperture processing method is proposed. To generalize the sub-aperture processing method, an echo-domain processing method using correlation of bistatic echoes is proposed. Finally, the residual phase errors of the both proposed processing methods are analyzed. Simulation experiments validate the proposed phase synchronization processing method and its phase error analysis results.展开更多
This paper deals with the problem of clutter suppression in spaceborne distributed synthetic aperture radar （D-SAR） with nonuniform three-dimensional （3D） configuration geometry. In order to make a breakthrough of...This paper deals with the problem of clutter suppression in spaceborne distributed synthetic aperture radar （D-SAR） with nonuniform three-dimensional （3D） configuration geometry. In order to make a breakthrough of the configuration limitation of the traditional space time adaptive processing （STAP） based on uniform array and improve the inhomogeneous clutter suppres- sion performance, this paper considers signal reconstrtiction technique using array interpolation to process the D-SAR signal. An array interpolation signal reconstruction method based on pitching-partition is derived then a signal reconstruction 3D-STAP clutter suppression method applied to nonuniform 3D configuration is proposed. In particular, the proposed method is compared with conventional methods and the performance analysis is carried out based on simulations. The improvement factor （IF） for clutter suppression is imported and reported as a benchmark on the clutter suppression effect.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(6100203161101187)
文摘In the distributed synthetic aperture radar （SAR）, the alternating bistatic mode can perform phase reference without a synchronization link between two satellites compared with the pulsed alternate synchronization method. The key of the phase synchronization processing is to extract the oscillator phase differences from the bistatic echoes. A signal model of phase synchronization in the alternating bistatic mode is presented. The phase synchronization processing method is then studied. To reduce the phase errors introduced by SAR imaging, a sub-aperture processing method is proposed. To generalize the sub-aperture processing method, an echo-domain processing method using correlation of bistatic echoes is proposed. Finally, the residual phase errors of the both proposed processing methods are analyzed. Simulation experiments validate the proposed phase synchronization processing method and its phase error analysis results.
基金2011 China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation Aerospace Science and Technology Innovation Foundation Subsidized Project2011 CASC and HIT Joint Technology Innovation Foundation
文摘This paper deals with the problem of clutter suppression in spaceborne distributed synthetic aperture radar （D-SAR） with nonuniform three-dimensional （3D） configuration geometry. In order to make a breakthrough of the configuration limitation of the traditional space time adaptive processing （STAP） based on uniform array and improve the inhomogeneous clutter suppres- sion performance, this paper considers signal reconstrtiction technique using array interpolation to process the D-SAR signal. An array interpolation signal reconstruction method based on pitching-partition is derived then a signal reconstruction 3D-STAP clutter suppression method applied to nonuniform 3D configuration is proposed. In particular, the proposed method is compared with conventional methods and the performance analysis is carried out based on simulations. The improvement factor （IF） for clutter suppression is imported and reported as a benchmark on the clutter suppression effect.
