Estimating Surface Water Speeds With a Single Phase Center SAR Versus an Along Track Interferometric SAR英文文献.pdfVIP

3638 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING, VOL. 48, NO. 10, OCTOBER 2010 Estimating Surface Water Speeds With a Single-Phase Center SAR Versus an Along-Track Interferometric SAR Paul R. Kersten, Life Member, IEEE , Jakov V. Toporkov, Senior Member, IEEE, Thomas L. Ainsworth, Senior Member, IEEE, Mark A. Sletten, Senior Member, IEEE, and Robert W. Jansen Abstract—Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) single-aperture sys- moving targets that are localized in space, such as ships or tems are designed to image fixed scenes. Dual-antenna along- vehicles. If the trajectory of the target motion is known, then track interferometric (ATI) SAR systems are designed to detect the anomalies are predictable and correctable. moving targets and estimate their motion parameters. Although SAR systems are not designed to characterize moving targets, for When moving targets are distributed in space, their impact localized targets, such as vehicles or ships, this problem has been on the phase of the return signal is far more complicated. addressed in the literature with some success. Distributed moving Rivers and sea channels are two examples of distributed moving targets are hard to characterize, even for ATI systems. Estimating targets. Return signals are generated by scattering from surface surface water speeds is an ideal example of this since the water disturbances, which may be caused by wind, flow turbulence, or returns are generated from weak returns randomly distributed in both time and space. The question asked here is can one measure any number of other natural phenomena. The reflection epochs surface water speeds with a single-phase center SAR system? The