Bistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a technique enabling all-day and all-weather high resolution terrain imaging, and consequently it is an important method in Earth observation. Bistatic SAR is an advanced method with significant potential, allowing anti-interference and forward-looking. It operates with a transmitter and a received mounted on separate platforms, resulting in increased capability, reliability and flexibility, as well as complex system design and signal processing requirements. Bistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar covers bistatic SAR in a comprehensive way, presenting theory, method and technique, as well as the most recent research and near-future applications. The book begins with imaging principles, and imaging characteristics of monostatic SAR, moving on to common and novel problems in bistatic SAR, before presenting theories, methods, and experimental system design. The title presents the design of experimental systems, research results and experimental verification. It gives key knowledge from a leading research group, including one of the earliest bistatic side-looking SAR experiments, and the first bistatic forward-looking SAR experiment in the world that used two aircraft. Six chapters cover imaging theory, imaging algorithms, parameter estimation, motion compensation, synchronization, and experimental verification. The book describes physical concepts simply and clearly, and gives concise mathematical derivations, so that the reader may quickly master complex issues in bistatic SAR. This volume is a comprehensive, clear, and useful guide to bistatic SAR. Presents comprehensive theory and method for bistatic SAR including the design of experimental systems and verificationConsiders different configurations including translational variant bistatic SAR and bistatic forward-looking SARGives insights based on a world-leading research program into bistatic SAR including practical tips on theory and methodCovers novel experiments including the first bistatic forward-looking SAR experiment using two aircraftOffers researchers clear descriptions of physical concepts and concise mathematical derivations to help master bistatic SAR