A constellation design method is developed and applied for bistatic SAR systems relying on satellite transmitters and aerial receivers with both side- and forward-looking antennas for global and continuous coverage. The design challenges related to a ring-slice-shaped coverage area are solved by adequately selecting the number of satellites per plane, while the number of orbital planes covers the whole Earth. Design results are validated by an independent simulation of constellation coverage around any target in time.
Novel constellation design method for spaceborne/airborne bistatic SAR systems
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems ; 50 , 3 ; 2082-2095
2014-07-01
3347058 byte
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Frequency-Domain Bistatic SAR Processing for Spaceborne/Airborne Configuration
Online Contents | 2010
|Bistatic Spaceborne-Airborne Experiment TerraSAR-X/F-SAR: Data Processing and Results
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) | 2008
|Performance of Spaceborne Bistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar
Online Contents | 2005
|