Browse > Article
http://dx.doi.org/10.7780/kjrs.2003.19.6.421

Radarsat-1 Doppler Information Extraction Technique Using Both Received Echo Data and Orbital and Attitude Information of Satellite  

고보연 (국방과학연구소 기술연구본부)
나원상 (국방과학연구소 기술연구본부)
이용웅 (국방과학연구소 기술연구본부)
Publication Information
Korean Journal of Remote Sensing / v.19, no.6, 2003 , pp. 421-430 More about this Journal
Abstract
The extraction technique for Doppler information(Doppler centroid frequency(f$_{dc}$) and it's rate(f$_{r}$) is very important to make an image from the radar echo signal data. Clutterlock and auto-focusing techniques have been widely used to extract accurate Doppler information. But both techniques are not easy to implement in SAR processor and need quite lots of time to calculate accurate f$_{dc}$ and f$_{r}$ because they are generally based on echo signal data only. In this paper we suggest hybrid method for Doppler extraction using both of echo signal data and orbital and attitude information of satellite. In this method CDE(Correlation Doppler Estimation) technique is only used to estimate exact modular f$_{dc}$ using received echo signal data and rest of other algorithms are based on simple mathematical model of geometry between satellite and ground targets as well as the Doppler frequency ambiguity resolving problem. The experimental results using Radarsat-1 signal data shows that the proposed method can be effectively used for the extraction of Doppler information.
Keywords
Doppler Center Frequency; SAR Processor; CDE; Radarsat; Clutterlock; Auto-focusing;
Citations & Related Records
연도 인용수 순위
  • Reference
1 Modeling a Correlation Algorithm for Spacebome SAR Signals /
[ Wu,C.;M.Jin ] / IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
2 Estimatind the Doppler entroid of SAR data /
[ Madsen,S.N. ] / IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
3 RADARSAT Attitude Estimates based on Doppler Centroid of Satellite Imagery /
[ Marandi,S.R. ] / Presented at the CEOS Workshop in RADARSAT Data Quality
4 A Comparison of Range-Doppler and Wavenumber Domain SAR Focusing Algorithms /
[ Bamler,R. ] / IEEE Transactions on Geosciences and Remote Sensing
5 Doppler Tracker for a Spaceborne ScanSAR System /
[ Dragosevic,M.V. ] / IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems