This paper reports on a model developed for evaluating major system performance of a spaceborne bistatic synthetic aperture radar 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, non-cooperative 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.
Performance of Spaceborne Bistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar
D'ERRICO, Marco;
2005
Abstract
This paper reports on a model developed for evaluating major system performance of a spaceborne bistatic synthetic aperture radar 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, non-cooperative 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.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
