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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
卷 55, 期 1, 页码 159-172出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2016.2602939
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Geosynchronous synthetic aperture radar (GEO SAR); imaging quality analysis; ionospheric scintillation; SAR focusing
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资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61225005, 61471038, 61501032]
- Beijing Natural Science Foundation [4162052]
- Chang Jiang Scholars Program [T2012122]
An L-band geosynchronous synthetic aperture radar (GEO SAR) will be inevitably affected by ionosphere scintillation because of its low carrier frequency. Meanwhile, compared with the low Earth orbit (LEO) SAR, a higher orbit of GEO SAR makes it have a longer integration time and a longer operation time within the susceptible regions of ionospheric scintillation. Thus, its imaging is more sensitive to ionospheric scintillation, and the corresponding degradation will have a different pattern. However, few works are focused on the quantitative analysis of the ionospheric scintillation impacts on L-band SAR. Moreover, the parameters of ionospheric irregularities utilized in the analyses are hard to be determined. In this paper, we first deduced the azimuth point-spread function with the consideration of both the amplitude and phase scintillation. Then, based on the measurable statistical parameters of ionospheric scintillation, performance specifications, including azimuth resolution, azimuth peak-to-side-lobe ratio (PSLR), and azimuth integrated sidelobe ratio (ISLR) are obtained to fully evaluate the impacts. The analysis suggests that in GEO SAR imaging, the azimuth ISLR severely deteriorates, whereas degradations of the azimuth resolution and PSLR are negligible. Finally, the simulations and a real ionospheric scintillation monitoring experiment by employing Global Positioning System satellites receivers were conducted, verifying the conclusions that the serious degraded contrast and focus quality of the images are brought by the raised azimuth ISLR.
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