Performance simulator for bu-static SAR missions
Programme
Discovery
Programme Reference
15/720
Contractor
Aresys
Start Date
End Date
Country
Italy

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.
Keywords
Software
SAR
EO
Simulator
SAOCOM-CS
Executive summary