Efficient Bistatic SAR Raw Signal Simulator of Extended Scenes

• Main Authors: Liang Yang, Weidong Yu, Shichao Zheng, Lei Zhang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
• Series: International Journal of Antennas and Propagation
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/130784

Bistatic SAR system is a new mode that allocates the radar transmitter and receiver on different platforms and has more advantages compared to the monostatic case. However, the existing bistatic SAR raw data simulator in the frequency domain can only handle the case of translation invariant system. In this paper, an efficient 2D frequency-domain raw data simulator of extended scenes for bistatic SAR of translation variant system is proposed by a geometric transformation method for the first time, where inverse STOLT interpolation is used to formulate the range migration terms. The presented simulator can accommodate the translation variant bistatic SAR system compared with existing bistatic SAR simulator. And it is more efficient than the time domain one by making use of Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). Simulation results for point targets and a real SAR image demonstrate its validity and effectiveness.