Performance of spaceborne bistatic synthetic aperture radar
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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.
microwave remote sensing, formation flying, bistatic SAR, spaceborne remote sensing, mission design, spaceborne remote sensing; bistatic SAR; formation flying; microwave remote sensing; mission design
microwave remote sensing, formation flying, bistatic SAR, spaceborne remote sensing, mission design, spaceborne remote sensing; bistatic SAR; formation flying; microwave remote sensing; mission design
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