Impact of oscillator noise in bistatic and multistatic SAR

被引:129
作者
Krieger, Gerhard [1 ]
Younis, Marwan [1 ]
机构
[1] German Aerosp Ctr, Microwaves & Radar Inst, D-82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
关键词
bistatic radar; interferometry; multistatic radar; oscillator; phase noise; synchronization; synthetic aperture radar;
D O I
10.1109/LGRS.2006.874164
中图分类号
P3 [地球物理学]; P59 [地球化学];
学科分类号
0708 ; 070902 ;
摘要
This letter addresses the impact of limited oscillator stability in bistatic and multistatic synthetic aperture radars (SARs). Oscillator noise deserves special attention in distributed SAR systems since there is no cancellation of low-frequency phase errors as in a monostatic SAR, where the same oscillator signal is used for modulation and demodulation. It is shown that the uncompensated phase noise may cause a time-variant shift, spurious sidelobes, and a broadening of the impulse response, as well as a low-frequency phase modulation of the focused SAR signal. Quantitative estimates are derived analytically for each of these errors based on a system-theoretic model taking into account the second-order statistics of the oscillator phase noise.
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页码:424 / 428
页数:5
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