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Performance simulator for bu-static SAR missions

Programme
Discovery
Programme Reference
15/720
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Country
Italy
Performance  simulator  for  bu-static  SAR missions
Description

This activity presents a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) simulator designed to assess the performance of bi-static SAR missions. It is a modular software able to simulate realistic SAR data (including injection of the system non-idealities), to estimate the SAR performance at radiometric and interferometric level. In order to ensure accurate measures of the bi-static performance, it simulates raw data exploiting a time-domain approach, without assumptions on the acquisition geometry. This feature makes the simulator a useful tool for the design of new SAR missions concepts. We also report sample results considering the SAOCOM-CS mission case as an example of application of the simulator.

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