Calibration concept for weakly-synchronised SAR Companion Missions: ESA's SAOCOM/CS case

Marc Rodriguez-Cassola; Pau Prats-Iraola; Matteo Nannini; Paco López-Dekker; Alberto Moreira; Bernardo Carnicero Dominguez

Calibration concept for weakly-synchronised SAR Companion Missions: ESA's SAOCOM/CS case

Marc Rodriguez-Cassola, Pau Prats-Iraola, Matteo Nannini, Paco López-Dekker, Alberto Moreira, Bernardo Carnicero Dominguez

Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceedings/Edited volume › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

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Abstract

Companion SAR missions offer a cost-effective solution to boost the performance and capabilities of existing SAR missions. In particular, a whole suite of coherent single-pass observations become feasible, allowing for the interferometric and tomographic exploitation of the received data. Interferometric and tomographic measurements are however very sensitive to even the slightest degradations in the phase of the received data, and impose stringent requirements on the calibration concept of the mission. Weakly-synchronised companion SAR missions may have significant residual clock errors, which challenge the attainment of this requirements. We put forward an innovative calibration concept based on autonomous (data-based) calibration at different product levels and present an estimation of the expected performance for ESA's SAOCOM/CS mission.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of EUSAR 2016: 11th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Number of pages	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9783800742288
Publication status	Published - 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	11th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar - Hamburg, Germany Duration: 6 Jun 2016 → 9 Jun 2016 Conference number: 11

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Conference	11th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
Abbreviated title	EUSAR 2016
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Hamburg
Period	6/06/16 → 9/06/16

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Rodriguez-Cassola, M, Prats-Iraola, P, Nannini, M, López-Dekker, P, Moreira, A & Dominguez, BC 2016, Calibration concept for weakly-synchronised SAR Companion Missions: ESA's SAOCOM/CS case. in Proceedings of EUSAR 2016: 11th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar., 7559294, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 11th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, Hamburg, Germany, 6/06/16.

Calibration concept for weakly-synchronised SAR Companion Missions: ESA's SAOCOM/CS case. / Rodriguez-Cassola, Marc; Prats-Iraola, Pau; Nannini, Matteo et al.
Proceedings of EUSAR 2016: 11th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016. 7559294.

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