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A survey of ionospheric effects on space-based radar
Zheng-Wen Xu,Jian Wu,Zhensen Wu +2 more
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In this paper, a survey of the potential ionospheric effects on the performance of space-based radar systems (SBRs) operating in the ambient ionosphere environment is presented.Abstract:
In this survey, we fully review almost all potential ionospheric effects on the performance of space-based radar systems (SBRs), which operate in the ambient ionosphere environment; in particular, we review the use of space-based synthetic aperture radar systems (SARs) for imaging. There are two families of effects involved. One is the effects of the background ionosphere (non-turbulent ionosphere), such as dispersion, group delay, refraction, Faraday rotation, and phase shift. The other is the effects due to ionospheric irregularities, such as refractive index fluctuation, phase perturbation, angle-of-arrival fluctuation, pulse broadening, clutter, and amplitude scintillation. These effects adversely affect SAR imaging in several respects, such as by causing image shift in the range, and degradations of the range resolution, azimuthal resolution, and/or the resolution in height (elevation). We also review ionospheric irregularity characteristics and descriptions, propagation channel statistics, ...read more
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A tutorial on synthetic aperture radar
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Recent Trend and Advance of Synthetic Aperture Radar with Selected Topics
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Accuracy and Resolution of ALOS Interferometry: Vector Deformation Maps of the Father's Day Intrusion at Kilauea
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Toward Operational Compensation of Ionospheric Effects in SAR Interferograms: The Split-Spectrum Method
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