A tutorial on synthetic aperture radar

A Moreira, P Prats-Iraola, M Younis… - … and remote sensing …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has been widely used for Earth remote sensing for more
than 30 years. It provides high-resolution, day-and-night and weather-independent images …

Modeling of ionospheric scintillation

D Vasylyev, Y Béniguel, W Volker… - Journal of Space …, 2022 - swsc-journal.org
A signal, such as from a GNSS satellite or microwave sounding system, propagating in the
randomly inhomogeneous ionosphere, experiences chaotic modulations of its amplitude …

Toward operational compensation of ionospheric effects in SAR interferograms: The split-spectrum method

G Gomba, A Parizzi, F De Zan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The differential ionospheric path delay is a major error source in L-band interferograms. It is
superimposed to topography and ground deformation signals, hindering the measurement …

Drifting ionospheric scintillation simulation for L-band geosynchronous SAR

F Tang, Y Ji, Y Zhang, Z Dong, Z Wang… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An L-band geosynchronous synthetic aperture radar (GEO SAR) is susceptible to the
ionospheric scintillation induced by ionospheric irregularities due to its lower carrier …

System design for geosynchronous synthetic aperture radar missions

S Hobbs, C Mitchell, B Forte, R Holley… - … on Geoscience and …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Geosynchronous synthetic aperture radar (GEO SAR) has been studied for several decades
but has not yet been implemented. This paper provides an overview of mission design …

Performance requirements for ionospheric correction of low-frequency SAR data

FJ Meyer - IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, significant progress has been made in developing theory and methods for
modeling, detecting, and correcting ionospheric effects in low-frequency synthetic aperture …

Ionospheric phase screen compensation for the Sentinel-1 TOPS and ALOS-2 ScanSAR modes

G Gomba, FR González… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Variations of the ionosphere can significantly disrupt synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
acquisitions and interferometric measurements of ground deformation. In this paper, we …

The influence of equatorial scintillation on L-band SAR image quality and phase

FJ Meyer, K Chotoo, SD Chotoo… - … on Geoscience and …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is well known that many of the nighttime acquisitions of the L-band Advanced Land
Observing Satellite (ALOS) Phased Array-type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) …

Radar imaging from geosynchronous orbit: Temporal decorrelation aspects

D Bruno, SE Hobbs - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Synthetic aperture radar imaging from geosynchronous orbit has significant potential
advantages over conventional low-Earth orbit radars, but it also has challenges to …

Correcting distortion of polarimetric SAR data induced by ionospheric scintillation

JS Kim, KP Papathanassiou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A correction methodology for distortions induced by ionospheric scintillation on fully
polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data is proposed. The correction is based on …