Wrapped Staring Spotlight SAR for TerraSAR-X

Mittermayer J, Kraus T, López-Dekker P, Prats-Iraola P, Krieger G, Moreira A (2016)

Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2016

Edited Volumes: Proceedings of the European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, EUSAR

Conference Proceedings Title: European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (EUSAR)

URI: https://elib.dlr.de/105349/

Abstract

The paper proposes wrapped staring spotlight SAR, a method to extend the azimuth steering capability for phased array SAR systems. Based on two TerraSAR-X (TSX) wrapped staring spotlight example acquisitions, the image performance of point and extended and targets is discussed. In the provided examples, the steering is extended until the gain of the grating lobes becomes much stronger than the gain into steering direction. By this, it becomes possible to improve the azimuth resolution by a factor of two when compared to that of the starring spotlight mode implemented in the operational TSX processing chain.

Authors with CRIS profile

Gerhard Krieger

Additional Organisation(s)

Professur für Kognitive Radarsysteme für die Fernerkundung

Involved external institutions

Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR) / German Aerospace Center DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Mittermayer, J., Kraus, T., López-Dekker, P., Prats-Iraola, P., Krieger, G., & Moreira, A. (2016). Wrapped Staring Spotlight SAR for TerraSAR-X. In European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (EUSAR).

MLA:

Mittermayer, Josef, et al. "Wrapped Staring Spotlight SAR for TerraSAR-X." Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, EUSAR 2016 2016.

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